Center for the Study of Democracy

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

The Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) at Leuphana University Lüneburg conducts research on democratic structures and procedures in politics and society, economics and the environment. The central focus of research is on questions of legitimacy and performance of democracy in the 21st century. The Center's research activities focus on three main areas: Value Change and Human Empowerment, Party Government and Institutional Change and Participation and Public Policy. In addition, the CSD engages in active promotion of younger researchers as well as in international and regional networking of democracy research institutions.

Topics

  • Value Change and Human Empowerment
  • Party Government and Institutional Change
  • Participation and Public Policy

Service offers

  • PHD-Summerschool
  • Politikberatung
  1. 2012
  2. Technikpolitik, Technikfolgen-Abschätzung und Partizipation

    Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)

    26.01.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. Workshop "Sektorale und regionale ökonomische Bewertung" Umweltbundesamt 2012

    Veit Ebermann (Participant)

    19.01.2012

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

  4. 2nd Transatlantic Conference on Transparancy Research 2012

    Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)

    2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. Auftaktveranstaltung des Projekts Jugend und Demokratie 2012

    Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)

    2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  6. Europa-Union, Kreisverband Hamburg-Harburg

    Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)

    2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  7. German Research Foundation (DFG) (External organisation)

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Member)

    20122015

    Activity: MembershipBodies of public institutionsResearch

  8. National Research University - Higher School of Economics

    Christian Welzel (Visiting researcher)

    2012

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  9. Society for Civic Education Didactics and Civic Youth and Adult Education e.V. (External organisation)

    Tonio Oeftering (Member)

    20122016

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsEducation

  10. The Future of the EU after Lisbon - the Crisis and Democracy in Europe

    Dawid Friedrich (Lecturer)

    2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  11. University of California, Irvine

    Christian Welzel (Visiting researcher)

    2012

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch