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. “The Bigger Picture of Corruption: A Comparative Analysis of Europe and the Rest of the World”, 03.03.2014.

    Kubbe, I. (Speaker)

    03.03.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. Bi-annual General Assembly of the World Values Survey Association - WVS 2014

    Welzel, C. (presenter)

    03.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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

    Welzel, C. (Oral presentation)

    03.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Welzel, C. (Speaker)

    03.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. Experimentelle Politik?

    Saretzki, T. (Speaker)

    21.02.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Welzel, C. (Oral presentation)

    12.02.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  8. 5th IPSA Summer School 2014

    Kronfeldt, M. (Participant)

    02.02.201414.02.2014

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

  9. 53rd Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association - WRSA 2014

    Welzel, C. (presenter)

    02.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Book Launch: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"

    Welzel, C. (Oral presentation)

    02.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  11. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Müller-Rommel, F. (Chair)

    02.201406.2014

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

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Publications

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