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. 2012
  2. 6th Pan-European Conference of the ECPR's Standing Group on the European Union 2012

    Friedrich, D. (Speaker)

    13.09.2012

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

  3. 42nd UACES Annual Conference - UACES 2012

    Friedrich, D. (Speaker)

    09.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. 42nd UACES Annual Conference - UACES 2012

    Friedrich, D. (Speaker)

    09.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association's - APSA 2012

    Alexander, A. (Speaker)

    30.08.201202.09.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Publisher)

    Lutter, A. (Editor)

    08.2012

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  7. Unterricht Wirtschaft + Politik (Journal)

    Lutter, A. (Editor)

    08.2012

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  8. Berlin Summer School "Democracy and Democratization" 2012

    Kubbe, I. (Participant)

    15.07.201227.07.2012

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

  9. “It’s all about profit: Determinants of Corruption in European Comparative Perspective”

    Kubbe, I. (Lecturer)

    11.07.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  10. 7th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis - IPA 2012

    Saretzki, T. (Speaker)

    06.07.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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Publications

  1. Minimization of answer distortion in personality questionnaires
  2. James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan or The boy who would not grow up
  3. Partizipation von Kindern und Jugendlichen im kommunalen Raum I
  4. Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften in der wirtschaftsberuflichen Bildung
  5. Grundlagen der Schnelligkeit bei sieben- bis elfjährigen Kindern
  6. Finale - Prüfungstraining Hauptschulabschluss Nordrhein-Westfalen
  7. Bewegungsbaustelle Fitnessstudio - vielfältige Angebote für alle?!
  8. Emotionale Kompetenz als Lernziel ästhetisch-kultureller Bildung?
  9. Switching from a Managing to a Monitoring Function on the Board
  10. Elternkurse zur Stärkung der Erziehungskompetenz - Ein Überblick
  11. Die Krisenwarn- und Krisenberatungsfunktion des Abschlussprüfers
  12. Produktion lokaler Erinnerungsräume durch immaterielles Welterbe
  13. Qualitätssicherung der Tätigkeit des unabhängigen Finanzexperten
  14. Partizipation von Kindern und Jugendlichen im kommunalen Raum II
  15. Aufbau und Steuerung eines markenkonformen Mitarbeiterverhaltens
  16. Lehrerprofessionalität und die Qualität von Mathematikunterricht
  17. Das Studium als Berufsvorbereitung - ein Mythos der Lehrerbildung
  18. Empathy as a motivator of dyadic helping across group boundaries
  19. A Dollhouse as a Situational Context for Mulitplicative Reasoning
  20. §7 Europäisches Verwaltungsrecht und Europäisches Verfassungsrecht
  21. Anonymized firm data under test: evidence from a replication study
  22. Kooperationsvereinbarungen als Baustein gelingender Kooperationen
  23. Gute Aufgaben im Mathematikunterricht der Grundschule - Einführung
  24. Mehrsprachigkeit und Interkulturalität in Fremdsprachenportfolios
  25. Kraushaar/Wieland/Reemtsma, “Rudi Dutschke, Andreas Baader und die RAF”.
  26. Fortbildung als Mittler zwischen Hochschule und Unterrichtspraxis
  27. The causal effects of exports on firm size and labor productivity
  28. Performance of Students with special educational needs in Germany
  29. Die Arbeitsbedingungen von Unternehmern im europäischen Vergleich
  30. The causal effects of exports on firm size and labor productivity
  31. Architekturvermittlung - Chancen und Risiken einer neuen Disziplin
  32. MCG - Ein Modell zur Prognose der Identifikationszeiten für Objekte
  33. More than the sum of its parts? Synergy and picturebook translation
  34. Notate zu Kunst und Kultur der zwanziger Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts
  35. Produktdifferenzierung in deutchen Industrieunternehmen 1995 - 2004
  36. Vom Elfenbeinturm zum Ladentisch - nachhaltige Potentiale im Handel
  37. Unfair wage perceptions and sleep: Evidence from German survey data
  38. The development and function of anger in childhood and adolescence
  39. Unfair wage perceptions and sleep: Evidence from German survey data
  40. Union membership and age: the inverted u-shape hypothesis under test