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
  1. 2024
  2. Senat (Organisational unit)

    Séville, A. (Member)

    01.12.202430.11.2026

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  3. German Political Science Association e.V. (External organisation)

    Koß, M. (Chair)

    01.11.202431.10.2027

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesResearch

  4. Dekanat Fakultät S (Organisational unit)

    Séville, A. (Member)

    01.10.202430.09.2026

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  5. Dekanat Fakultät S (Organisational unit)

    Koß, M. (Chair)

    01.10.202430.09.2026

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  6. 29. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft - - DVPW 2024

    Hakelberg, L. (Organiser)

    27.09.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops 2024

    Koß, M. (Speaker)

    25.03.202428.03.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  8. Joint Sessions of Workshops 2024

    Séville, A. (Organiser) & Koß, M. (Organiser)

    25.03.202428.03.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. Schelling-Forum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

    Séville, A. (Organiser), Paul, H. (Speaker) & Scheunpflug, A. (Speaker)

    01.02.202402.02.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Re/Präsentation. Neue Formen politischer Ansprache und Fürsprache

    Séville, A. (Organiser)

    01.01.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  11. Civic invocations: Contemporary codes of conduct in liberal democracy

    Séville, A. (Speaker)

    2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  12. Repräsentation und Ressentiment. Gesellschaftswissenschaftliches Kolleg der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

    Koß, M. (Speaker)

    20242025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  13. Representation as “experiencing for”? Exposure as a political argument

    Séville, A. (Speaker)

    2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  14. 2023
  15. 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)

    28.06.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  16. Der Staat in der Nachhaltigkeitstransformation

    Saretzki, T. (Organiser) & Rose, M. (Moderator)

    01.06.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  17. The Sustainable State.

    Saretzki, T. (Organiser), Bornemann, B. (Organiser), Rose, M. (Moderator), Newig, J. (Organiser), Laruffa, F. (Organiser) & Marius, C. (Organiser)

    01.06.202303.06.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  18. Verzichten - müssen, können, lernen

    Séville, A. (Moderator), Schirnding de Almeida, E. (Speaker) & Kleilein, D. (Speaker)

    16.05.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  19. Klimawandel und Demokratie: Kipppunkte der Problembewältigung und Konfliktregelung?

    Saretzki, T. (Speaker)

    10.05.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  20. Reflexive Demokratie: eine metapolitische Reaktion auf die dritte demokratische Transformation

    Saretzki, T. (Speaker)

    31.03.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  21. The Colonial Origins of Tax Havenry

    Hakelberg, L. (Speaker)

    22.03.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  22. US Power and the Harmonization of Company Taxation in the EU

    Hakelberg, L. (Speaker)

    20.03.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  23. Podiumsdiskussion: Neue Technologien und jüdische Ethik

    Séville, A. (Speaker)

    15.03.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  24. Kaminabend der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

    Séville, A. (Organiser), Priesemann, V. (Speaker), Strohschneider, P. (Speaker), Hafner, U. (Speaker) & Stöckl, A. (Speaker)

    01.01.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  25. 2022
  26. International experience and recommendations

    Koß, M. (Oral presentation)

    09.12.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  27. Science, Technology and Democracy: Interactions in Change

    Saretzki, T. (Speaker)

    09.11.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  28. Assessing knowledge cumulation in earth system governance research: An analysis of 100 published ESG papers

    Rose, M. (Speaker) & Newig, J. (Speaker)

    21.10.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  29. 2022 Toronto Conference on Earth System Governance

    Rose, M. (Organiser), Rose, M. (Moderator), Newig, J. (Speaker) & Newig, J. (Organiser)

    20.10.202224.10.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  30. Sommerakademie der Grünen Akademie der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung - 2022

    Saretzki, T. (Participant)

    26.08.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  31. Environmental governance research: Interdisciplinary, Policy-oriented - and Cumulative?

    Rose, M. (Speaker) & Newig, J. (Coauthor)

    25.08.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  32. ECPR General Conference 2022

    Saretzki, T. (Participant)

    22.08.202226.08.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  33. Auftaktveranstaltung der Reihe „Förder-institutionen im Gespräch“: Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

    Saretzki, T. (Participant)

    30.06.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  34. 3. Sitzung der Ethik-Kommission der DVPW

    Saretzki, T. (Participant)

    21.06.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  35. Promovieren mit Stipendium: Vor- und Nachteile gegenüber Promotionen auf Stellen für wis-senschaftliche Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter

    Saretzki, T. (Speaker)

    22.04.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  36. Repräsentation und Ressentiment. Gesellschaftswissenschaftliches Kolleg der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

    Koß, M. (Speaker)

    20222023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  37. School of Sustainability (Organisational unit)

    Newig, J. (Office)

    2022 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  38. 2021
  39. Environmental Governance of a Belt and Road Project in Montenegro – National Agency and External Influences

    Coenen, J. (Speaker), Newig, J. (Coauthor) & Meyfroidt, P. (Coauthor)

    07.09.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  40. The EU governs beyond borders to address the displacement of environmental impacts

    Coenen, J. (Speaker), Newig, J. (Coauthor), Challies, E. (Coauthor) & Bager, S. (Coauthor)

    31.08.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  41. Police, Politics, Polis – Policing refugees in the city

    Münch, S. (Speaker) & Geugjes, M. (Speaker)

    08.07.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  42. Rückkehr und Reintegration: Covid-19. Die aktuelle Situation in Erstaufnahmeeinrichtungen und Ankerzentren

    Münch, S. (Speaker)

    09.02.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  43. Eingeladener Vortrag zu 'Der politisch-planerische Umgang mit der "Sozialen Mischung"'

    Münch, S. (Speaker)

    21.01.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  44. Earth System Governance Taskforce on Knowledge Cumulation (External organisation)

    Newig, J. (Office)

    2021 → …

    Activity: MembershipBodies of public institutionsTransfer

  45. Utrecht University

    Newig, J. (Visiting researcher)

    2021 → …

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  46. 2020
  47. Vortrag: Kooptation der "Freiwilligen Rückkehr" in das Migrationsmanagement

    Münch, S. (Speaker)

    28.10.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  48. Ausländerbehörden zwischen “Willkommen“ und Rückkehr

    Münch, S. (Speaker)

    18.09.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  49. 3. Konferenz des Netzwerk Fluchtforschung 2020

    Münch, S. (Speaker)

    17.09.202019.09.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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