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. 2nd Transatlantic Conference on Transparancy Research 2012

    Friedrich, D. (Speaker)

    2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. Auftaktveranstaltung des Projekts Jugend und Demokratie 2012

    Friedrich, D. (Speaker)

    2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  4. Europa-Union, Kreisverband Hamburg-Harburg

    Friedrich, D. (Speaker)

    2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  5. German Research Foundation (External organisation)

    Müller-Rommel, F. (Member)

    20122015

    Activity: MembershipBodies of public institutionsResearch

  6. National Research University - Higher School of Economics

    Welzel, C. (Visiting researcher)

    2012

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

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

    Oeftering, T. (Member)

    20122016

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsEducation

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

    Friedrich, D. (Lecturer)

    2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  9. University of California, Irvine

    Welzel, C. (Visiting researcher)

    2012

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  10. University of California, Irvine

    Müller-Rommel, F. (Visiting researcher)

    20122013

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  11. 2011
  12. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Müller-Rommel, F. (Chair)

    12.201105.2012

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

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Publications

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