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. 2015
  2. Tel Aviv University

    Kubbe, I. (Visiting researcher)

    26.02.201506.04.2015

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  3. Tagung der Sektion Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft - DVPW 2015

    Kubbe, I. (Organiser) & Wienkoop, N.-K. (Participant)

    25.02.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Verfassungspolitik in Albanien: Machtinstrument oder heilige Kuh?

    Osterberg-Kaufmann, N. (presenter)

    25.02.201527.02.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  5. Guest Lecture: Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation

    Welzel, C. (Lecturer)

    24.02.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. Annual Convention of the International Studies Association 2015

    van Hüllen, V. (presenter)

    18.02.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. ECPR Winter School in Methods and Techniques, Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences: Qualitative Interpretive Methods

    Wach, L. (Participant)

    13.02.201520.02.2015

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

  8. Guest Lecture: Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation

    Welzel, C. (Speaker)

    03.02.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  9. Game Theory and Applications for Political Science

    Kronfeldt, M. (Speaker)

    01.02.201513.02.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  10. Guest lecture: Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation

    Welzel, C. (Lecturer)

    02.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  11. Politikwissenschaft in den Kulturwissenschaften

    van Hüllen, V. (Panel participant)

    27.01.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

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Publications

  1. Emotionale Kompetenz als Lernziel ästhetisch-kultureller Bildung?
  2. Switching from a Managing to a Monitoring Function on the Board
  3. Partizipation von Kindern und Jugendlichen im kommunalen Raum I
  4. Elternkurse zur Stärkung der Erziehungskompetenz - Ein Überblick
  5. Die Krisenwarn- und Krisenberatungsfunktion des Abschlussprüfers
  6. Produktion lokaler Erinnerungsräume durch immaterielles Welterbe
  7. Qualitätssicherung der Tätigkeit des unabhängigen Finanzexperten
  8. Partizipation von Kindern und Jugendlichen im kommunalen Raum II
  9. Aufbau und Steuerung eines markenkonformen Mitarbeiterverhaltens
  10. Lehrerprofessionalität und die Qualität von Mathematikunterricht
  11. Das Studium als Berufsvorbereitung - ein Mythos der Lehrerbildung
  12. Empathy as a motivator of dyadic helping across group boundaries
  13. A Dollhouse as a Situational Context for Mulitplicative Reasoning
  14. §7 Europäisches Verwaltungsrecht und Europäisches Verfassungsrecht
  15. Anonymized firm data under test: evidence from a replication study
  16. Kooperationsvereinbarungen als Baustein gelingender Kooperationen
  17. Gute Aufgaben im Mathematikunterricht der Grundschule - Einführung
  18. Mehrsprachigkeit und Interkulturalität in Fremdsprachenportfolios
  19. Kraushaar/Wieland/Reemtsma, “Rudi Dutschke, Andreas Baader und die RAF”.
  20. Fortbildung als Mittler zwischen Hochschule und Unterrichtspraxis
  21. The causal effects of exports on firm size and labor productivity
  22. Performance of Students with special educational needs in Germany
  23. Die Arbeitsbedingungen von Unternehmern im europäischen Vergleich
  24. The causal effects of exports on firm size and labor productivity
  25. Architekturvermittlung - Chancen und Risiken einer neuen Disziplin
  26. MCG - Ein Modell zur Prognose der Identifikationszeiten für Objekte
  27. More than the sum of its parts? Synergy and picturebook translation
  28. Notate zu Kunst und Kultur der zwanziger Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts
  29. Produktdifferenzierung in deutchen Industrieunternehmen 1995 - 2004
  30. Vom Elfenbeinturm zum Ladentisch - nachhaltige Potentiale im Handel
  31. Unfair wage perceptions and sleep: Evidence from German survey data
  32. The development and function of anger in childhood and adolescence
  33. Unfair wage perceptions and sleep: Evidence from German survey data
  34. Union membership and age: the inverted u-shape hypothesis under test
  35. Ungeliebtes Kind? Zur Rolle der empirischen Pädagogik als Pädagogik
  36. Clandestine Organizations, al Qaeda, and the Paradox of (In)Visibility
  37. What do employers pay for employees’ complex problem solving skills?
  38. Interkulturelle Teams : Neue Strategien der globalen Zusammenarbeit
  39. Die Bedeutung von Corporate Governance Reports aus Investorensicht