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. 2014
  2. Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation

    Welzel, C. (Lecturer)

    07.04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. Autocratic Adaptation, Autocratic Legacies and Fundamentalist Islam in Niger

    Elischer, S. (Lecturer)

    03.04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  4. Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation

    Welzel, C. (Lecturer)

    02.04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  5. 4th Annual Research Conference of the Laboratory of Comparative Social Research - LCSR 2014

    Welzel, C. (Speaker)

    04.2014

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

  6. Book Presenation: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"

    Welzel, C. (Oral presentation)

    04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  7. Book Presentation: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"

    Welzel, C. (Oral presentation)

    04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  8. Book Presentation: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"

    Welzel, C. (Oral presentation)

    04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  9. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)

    Müller-Rommel, F. (Member)

    04.201403.2016

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  10. From Sacrificing Life to Living It: Moral Evolution and the Emerging Mass Basis of Global Peace

    Welzel, C. (Oral presentation)

    31.03.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  11. Sektionstagung der DVPW Sektion Policy-Analyse und Verwaltungswissenschaft 2014

    Saretzki, T. (Organiser)

    17.03.201418.03.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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Publications

  1. Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften in der wirtschaftsberuflichen Bildung
  2. Partizipation von Kindern und Jugendlichen im kommunalen Raum I
  3. Anonymized firm data under test: evidence from a replication study
  4. The causal effects of exports on firm size and labor productivity
  5. The causal effects of exports on firm size and labor productivity
  6. Mehrsprachigkeit und Interkulturalität in Fremdsprachenportfolios
  7. Kraushaar/Wieland/Reemtsma, “Rudi Dutschke, Andreas Baader und die RAF”.
  8. Notate zu Kunst und Kultur der zwanziger Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts
  9. Ungeliebtes Kind? Zur Rolle der empirischen Pädagogik als Pädagogik
  10. The development and function of anger in childhood and adolescence
  11. Lernprozessbegleitendes Feedback als Diagnose- und Förderinstrument
  12. Das organisatorische Problem oder Wesenhaftes der Unterrichtspraxis?
  13. Neuere Ansätze des 'Verstehens' in der 'Historischen Bildungsforschung'
  14. Vielfalt an Übergängen in der beruflichen Bildung - zwölf Ansichten
  15. Sind mittelständische Betriebe der Jobmotor der deutschen Wirtschaft?
  16. Repräsentationen eigener und fremder Kulturen in der (Kinder)Literatur
  17. Heinrich Roths Forderung nach einer "realistischen Wendung" als Slogan
  18. Is sensitivity for the complexity of mathematics teaching measurable?
  19. A comparison of students' (mis)understanding of female entrepreneurship
  20. Evaluation beruflicher Kompetenzentwicklung in der Erzieherausbildung
  21. Kindergarten und Grundschule zwischen Differenzierung und Integration
  22. German Works Councils Old and New: Incidence, Coverage and Determinants
  23. Reasoning in primary school? An analysis of 3rd grade German textbooks
  24. Praxisratgeber zur Betreuung und Beratung von Kindern und Jugendlichen