Center for the Study of Democracy
Organisational unit: Institute
Organisation profile
The interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Democracy was founded on 2 June 2004 on the recommendation of the Scientific Commission of Lower Saxony under the chairmanship of Professor Dr. Hans Dieter Klingemann. Founding Director and Head of the CSD from 2004 to 2018 was Professor Dr. Ferdinand Müller-Rommel.
The Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) brings together the research activities of the members of the Institute for Political Science (IPW) under one roof. The Center is primarily concerned with the analysis of democratic orders and processes. The research activities can be divided into three core areas:
- The institutional, ideational and material foundations of democratic orders;
- The drivers of political change in these orders;
- And the impact of democratic policymaking on society, economy and the environment.
The Centre is also actively involved in promoting young scientists and fosters the international and regional networking of research institutions devoted to the study of democracy.
Main research areas
The activities of the CSD include:
- Implementing research projects on the three core topics: foundations, transformation, and impact of democracy
- Organization of international conferences and workshops on current issues of democracy research
- Collection and coordination of international data sets, especially the World Values Survey, the Comparative Political Data Set, and the database on Central and Eastern European Political Systems and Governments
- Promotion of research in the form of doctoral and post-doctoral scholarships at the Center
- Hosting regular guest lectures by internationally renowned scientists and early career researchers
- Active scientific promotion of young talent in the form of regular doctoral seminars on theories and methods of democracy research as well as in the form of summer schools for doctorate students and inter-university graduate networks
- Establishing contacts between science and practice
Teaching
- PHD-Summerschool
- Politikberatung
- 2024
Senat (Organisational unit)
Séville, A. (Member)
01.12.2024 → 30.11.2026Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
German Political Science Association e.V. (External organisation)
Koß, M. (Chair)
01.11.2024 → 31.10.2027Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Dekanat Fakultät S (Organisational unit)
Séville, A. (Member)
01.10.2024 → 30.09.2026Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Dekanat Fakultät S (Organisational unit)
Koß, M. (Chair)
01.10.2024 → 30.09.2026Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
29. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft - - DVPW 2024
Hakelberg, L. (Organiser)
27.09.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops 2024
Koß, M. (Speaker)
25.03.2024 → 28.03.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Joint Sessions of Workshops 2024
Séville, A. (Organiser) & Koß, M. (Organiser)
25.03.2024 → 28.03.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Schelling-Forum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Séville, A. (Organiser), Paul, H. (Speaker) & Scheunpflug, A. (Speaker)
01.02.2024 → 02.02.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Re/Präsentation. Neue Formen politischer Ansprache und Fürsprache
Séville, A. (Organiser)
01.01.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Civic invocations: Contemporary codes of conduct in liberal democracy
Séville, A. (Speaker)
2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Neutralität und Amtsgedanke in der Parteiendemokratie. Einige Überlegungen zwischen Zeitdiagnose und Demokratietheorie, internationaler Workshop: Neutralität. Aktualität eines wissenschaftlichen und politischen Konzepts
Séville, A. (Speaker)
2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Repräsentation und Ressentiment. Gesellschaftswissenschaftliches Kolleg der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
Koß, M. (Speaker)
2024 → 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Representation as “experiencing for”? Exposure as a political argument
Séville, A. (Speaker)
2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 2023
The Whiteness of Wealth Management: Colonial Economic Structure, Racism, and the Emergence of Tax Havens in the British Caribbean
Hakelberg, L. (Speaker)
29.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Whiteness of Wealth Management: Colonial Economic Structure, Racism, and the Emergence of Tax Havens in the British Caribbean
Hakelberg, L. (Speaker)
28.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Explaining the performance of participatory and collaborative governance in addressing long-term environmental policy issues
Newig, J. (Speaker), Rose, M. (Coauthor) & Jager, N. W. (Coauthor)
28.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Der Staat in der Nachhaltigkeitstransformation
Saretzki, T. (Organiser) & Rose, M. (Moderator)
01.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
The Sustainable State.
Saretzki, T. (Organiser), Bornemann, B. (Organiser), Rose, M. (Moderator), Newig, J. (Organiser), Laruffa, F. (Organiser) & Marius, C. (Organiser)
01.06.2023 → 03.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Verzichten - müssen, können, lernen
Séville, A. (Moderator), Schirnding de Almeida, E. (Speaker) & Kleilein, D. (Speaker)
16.05.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Klimawandel und Demokratie: Kipppunkte der Problembewältigung und Konfliktregelung?
Saretzki, T. (Speaker)
10.05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Reflexive Demokratie: eine metapolitische Reaktion auf die dritte demokratische Transformation
Saretzki, T. (Speaker)
31.03.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Colonial Origins of Tax Havenry
Hakelberg, L. (Speaker)
22.03.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
US Power and the Harmonization of Company Taxation in the EU
Hakelberg, L. (Speaker)
20.03.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Podiumsdiskussion: Neue Technologien und jüdische Ethik
Séville, A. (Speaker)
15.03.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Kaminabend der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Séville, A. (Organiser), Priesemann, V. (Speaker), Strohschneider, P. (Speaker), Hafner, U. (Speaker) & Stöckl, A. (Speaker)
01.01.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- 2022
International experience and recommendations
Koß, M. (Oral presentation)
09.12.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Science, Technology and Democracy: Interactions in Change
Saretzki, T. (Speaker)
09.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Assessing knowledge cumulation in earth system governance research: An analysis of 100 published ESG papers
Rose, M. (Speaker) & Newig, J. (Speaker)
21.10.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
2022 Toronto Conference on Earth System Governance
Rose, M. (Organiser), Rose, M. (Moderator), Newig, J. (Speaker) & Newig, J. (Organiser)
20.10.2022 → 24.10.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Sommerakademie der Grünen Akademie der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung - 2022
Saretzki, T. (Participant)
26.08.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Environmental governance research: Interdisciplinary, Policy-oriented - and Cumulative?
Rose, M. (Speaker) & Newig, J. (Coauthor)
25.08.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The role of social science evidence in decisions on the design of participatory governance: Tentative findings from a German mixed-methods study
Rose, M. (Speaker) & Newig, J. (Coauthor)
25.08.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
ECPR General Conference 2022
Saretzki, T. (Participant)
22.08.2022 → 26.08.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Auftaktveranstaltung der Reihe „Förder-institutionen im Gespräch“: Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Saretzki, T. (Participant)
30.06.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
3. Sitzung der Ethik-Kommission der DVPW
Saretzki, T. (Participant)
21.06.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Festakt zum 65. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. Frank Nullmeier: Übergabe einer Festschrift „Gesellschaft und Politik verstehen“ und Podiumsdiskussion „Politikwissenschaft als politische Wissenschaft“
Saretzki, T. (Participant)
10.06.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Promovieren mit Stipendium: Vor- und Nachteile gegenüber Promotionen auf Stellen für wis-senschaftliche Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter
Saretzki, T. (Speaker)
22.04.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Repräsentation und Ressentiment. Gesellschaftswissenschaftliches Kolleg der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
Koß, M. (Speaker)
2022 → 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
School of Sustainability (Organisational unit)
Newig, J. (Office)
2022 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
- 2021
Environmental Governance of a Belt and Road Project in Montenegro – National Agency and External Influences
Coenen, J. (Speaker), Newig, J. (Coauthor) & Meyfroidt, P. (Coauthor)
07.09.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The EU governs beyond borders to address the displacement of environmental impacts
Coenen, J. (Speaker), Newig, J. (Coauthor), Challies, E. (Coauthor) & Bager, S. (Coauthor)
31.08.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Police, Politics, Polis – Policing refugees in the city
Münch, S. (Speaker) & Geugjes, M. (Speaker)
08.07.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sachverständiger im Finanzausschuss des Deutschen Bundestages zum ATAD-Umsetzungsgesetz
Hakelberg, L. (Consultant)
03.05.2021Activity: Consultancy
Rückkehr und Reintegration: Covid-19. Die aktuelle Situation in Erstaufnahmeeinrichtungen und Ankerzentren
Münch, S. (Speaker)
09.02.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Eingeladener Vortrag zu 'Der politisch-planerische Umgang mit der "Sozialen Mischung"'
Münch, S. (Speaker)
21.01.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Earth System Governance Taskforce on Knowledge Cumulation (External organisation)
Newig, J. (Office)
2021 → …Activity: Membership › Bodies of public institutions › Transfer
Utrecht University
Newig, J. (Visiting researcher)
2021 → …Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
- 2020
Vortrag: Kooptation der "Freiwilligen Rückkehr" in das Migrationsmanagement
Münch, S. (Speaker)
28.10.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Ausländerbehörden zwischen “Willkommen“ und Rückkehr
Münch, S. (Speaker)
18.09.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
3. Konferenz des Netzwerk Fluchtforschung 2020
Münch, S. (Speaker)
17.09.2020 → 19.09.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Towards Inexperienced Leaders? Changing Prime Ministers’ Political Experiences and Career Profiles in European Democracies
Müller-Rommel, F. (Coauthor), Vercesi, M. (presenter) & Berz, J. (Coauthor)
26.08.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The German Assisted Return Regime – an interpretive approach
Münch, S. (Speaker) & Jantzer, L. (Speaker)
02.07.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Podiumsdiskussion
Münch, S. (Speaker)
25.06.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Online-Diskussion: Deutsche Abschiebungspolitik im Praxistest
Münch, S. (Speaker)
06.05.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Journal of Common Market Studies (Journal)
Lenz, T. (Reviewer)
04.2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Review of International Organizations (Journal)
Lenz, T. (Reviewer)
04.2020 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
West European Politics (Journal)
Lenz, T. (Reviewer)
03.2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
SOLWODI-Fachtagung 2020
Münch, S. (Participant)
03.02.2020 → 04.02.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Journal of European Integration (Journal)
Lenz, T. (Reviewer)
02.2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Politische Vierteljahresschrift (Journal)
Koß, M. (Reviewer)
27.01.2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Workshop "Demokratie und Wissen, Zwischen Expertokratie und Populismus" 2020
Séville, A. (Organiser) & Münkler, L. (Organiser)
27.01.2020 → 28.01.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
- 2019
Paths to Power and Legitimacy: The Impact of Legislators’ Experience on Policy-Making in the European Parliament
Salvati, E. (presenter) & Vercesi, M. (presenter)
29.11.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Erhalt und Zusammenbruch der legislativen Demokratie. Frankreich und Deutschland im Vergleich
Koß, M. (Oral presentation)
14.11.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Presentation: Nexus of Housing and Migration
Münch, S. (Speaker)
23.10.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Building trust in early childhood education and care. The role of local civil society
Münch, S. (Speaker) & Siede, A. (Speaker)
11.10.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Vergleichende Parlamentarismusforschung
Koß, M. (Speaker)
10.10.2019 → 11.10.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Workshop für die Autor:innen des Handbooks on the Politics of Taxation 2019
Hakelberg, L. (Organiser)
10.10.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Präsentation: Deutsche Migrationspolitik im Mehrebenensystem. Zur Rolle von Städten und Kommunen bei Abschiebung und Rückkehrförderung
Münch, S. (Speaker)
04.10.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Environmental Governance of the Belt and Road Initiative
Coenen, J. (Speaker), Newig, J. (Coauthor), Challies, E. (Coauthor), Bager, S. (Coauthor) & Meyfroidt, P. (Coauthor)
05.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Professionalisation in the European Parliament: The Impact of Different Multi-Level Careers on the Definition of Institutional Leadership
Vercesi, M. (presenter) & Eugenio, S. (Coauthor)
04.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Summer Program in Quantitative Methods - 2019
Kruse, S. (Participant)
22.07.2019 → 18.08.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Theorie und Praxis öffentlicher Güter
Leipold, A. (Speaker)
28.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Intensive Quantitative Methods Course for PhD students, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Kruse, S. (Lecturer)
13.05.2019 → 18.05.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
'A Professional Elite? Pre-Parliamentary Experience and Leadership Roles in the European Parliament'
Vercesi, M. (presenter)
11.05.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
International Biennial Conference - EUSA 2019
Vercesi, M. (Chair)
09.05.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Annual Meeting WPSA Conference
Kruse, S. (Speaker)
18.04.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute
Kruse, S. (Oral presentation)
27.03.2019 → 29.03.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
How Can We Measure Party Institutionalisation in Times of Personal Politics? A New Index and the Case of the Italian 5SM
Vercesi, M. (Speaker)
13.03.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Stadt und sozialer Zusammenhalt
Münch, S. (Speaker)
21.02.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Convegno Nazionale. Il Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri dallo Stato liberale allo Stato democratico fino all'Unione europea - 2019
Vercesi, M. (Speaker)
20.02.2019 → 22.02.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Doing Democracy? Democracy and Populism in the EU after the “Refugee Crisis"
Séville, A. (Speaker)
01.02.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
European University, Florenz
Müller-Rommel, F. (Visiting researcher)
01.2019Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association - EPSA 2019
Romero, X. (Speaker)
2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops - ECPR 2019
Romero, X. (Speaker)
2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Elections, Public Opinion and Parties Conference - 2019
Romero, X. (Speaker)
2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Institute of Sustainability Governance (Organisational unit)
Newig, J. (Chair)
2019 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
University of Strathclyde
Romero, X. (Visiting researcher)
2019Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
- 2018
Evidence-based policy-making? Die Bedeutung wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse in politischen Prozessen
Saretzki, T. (Speaker)
24.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Paper: The Multilevel Governance of Deportation – is Access to local Membership possible?
Münch, S. (Speaker)
05.10.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Organisation und Moderation der PluraL und ZDEMO Film- und Vortragsreihe "Angekommen? Lokale und globale Perspektiven auf Flucht, Migration und Zusammenleben" (zusammen mit Thekla de Carvalho Rodrigues)
Münch, S. (Speaker)
01.10.2018 → 06.12.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Teaching: Autocracies in International Relations (winter semester 2018-19, bachelor Political Science)
Šatra, P. (Speaker)
10.2018 → 02.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
27. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft - DVPW 2018
van Hüllen, V. (presenter)
28.09.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Politische Diskurse über die Unternehmensbesteuerung
Leipold, A. (Speaker)
27.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
27. Congress of the German Political Science Association - GPSA 2018
Kruse, S. (presenter)
25.09.2018 → 28.09.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Politik mit dem Verbraucher?
Leipold, A. (Participant)
18.09.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
American Political Science Association's Annual Meeting & Exhibition
Romero, X. (Speaker)
01.09.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Political Science Association (External organisation)
Müller-Rommel, F. (Member)
01.09.2018 → 2020Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
ECPR General Conference 2018
Satra, P. (presenter)
23.08.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
European Consortium for Political Research General Conference - ECPR 2018
Kruse, S. (presenter)
22.08.2018 → 25.08.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
European Consortium for Political Research General Conference - ECPR 2018
Hakelberg, L. (Organiser)
22.08.2018 → 25.08.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research