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
  1. 2011
  2. 18th International Conference of Europeanists - CES 2011

    Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)

    2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. Forschungskolloquium der Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen

    Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)

    2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Forschungskolloquium "EU Governance and Civil Society and the Eastern Enlargement”, Forschungsstelle Osteuropa an der Universität Bremen

    Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)

    2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. National Research University - Higher School of Economics

    Christian Welzel (Visiting researcher)

    2011

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  6. Promotionsworkshop des Graduiertenkollegs „Herausforderung der Demokratie durch den Klimawandel“ am Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut Essen - KWI 2011

    Dawid Friedrich (Opponent)

    2011

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

  7. Promotionsworkshop des Graduiertenkollegs „Herausforderung der Demokratie durch den Klimawandel“ am Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut Essen - KWI 2011

    Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)

    2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. University of California, Irvine

    Christian Welzel (Visiting researcher)

    2011

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  9. Zur Zukunft der repräsentativen Demokratie

    Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)

    2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  10. 2010
  11. Wer entscheidet unter welchen Bedingungen über die Nominierung von Kandidaten?' Die Kandidatenaufstellung zur Bundestagswahl 2009

    Marion Reiser (Speaker)

    14.10.201015.10.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  12. Tagung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses der Sektion "Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft" 2010

    Ina Kubbe (Speaker)

    20.09.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch