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. 2013
  2. Internationale Konferenz "Macht – Medien – Mitteleuropa: Dimensionen der Macht und mediales Spektakel" - 2013

    Björn Buß (Speaker)

    19.09.201320.09.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. Integrativ-strategische Politikfelder für den Umgang mit Komplexität?

    Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)

    21.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Methodenworkshop: Einführung in die Grounded-Theory-Methodologie (GTM) - 2013

    Veit Ebermann (Participant)

    23.09.201324.09.2013

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

  5. Herbsttagung der Sektion Politische Theorie und Ideenbeschichte - DVPW 2013

    Thomas Saretzki (Moderator)

    26.09.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. Summer School der Philosophischen Fakultät der Leibniz-Universität Hannover - 2013

    Veit Ebermann (Participant)

    26.09.201327.09.2013

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

  7. Coming to Terms with the Imperial Presidency? Constitutional Reform in Kenya

    Sebastian Elischer (Oral presentation)

    27.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  8. Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" - 2013

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    10.2013 → …

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. Late Summer School, Graduate School of Politics, Münster: Qualitative Analysis of Interview Data - 2013

    Lena Wach (Participant)

    07.10.201309.10.2013

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

  10. Annual Meeting, German Political Science Association - Comparative Politics Section 2013

    Christian Welzel (presenter)

    09.10.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  11. International Workshop: Contestation of hydraulic fracking in Europe and the USA: policies, publics and democracy - 2013

    Thomas Saretzki (Organiser)

    10.10.201312.10.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  12. Is it all about profit?: Corruption in European Comparative Perspective

    Ina Kubbe (Oral presentation)

    11.10.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  13. Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" 2015

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    24.10.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  14. Workshop "External Actors’ Responses to the Arab Spring The EU in Comparative Perspective" - 2013

    Vera van Hüllen (presenter)

    25.10.201326.10.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  15. MEPs on the Web - different from national MPs or just the same? Socialisation and the new digital media in the European Parliament

    Jessica Sabrina Kunert (Oral presentation)

    28.10.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  16. Entwicklung der niedersächsichen Strategie zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel

    Veit Ebermann (Oral presentation)

    30.10.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  17. University of Birmingham

    Marion Reiser (Visiting researcher)

    11.2013

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  18. University of Siena

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Visiting researcher)

    11.201312.2013

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  19. „Is it all about profit? Corruption in European Comparative Perspective”

    Ina Kubbe (Lecturer)

    10.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  20. Exporting (Good) Governance: Regional Organizations and Areas of Limited Statehood - 2013

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    15.11.201316.11.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  21. Was heißt "kritische" Politikwissenschaft?

    Thomas Saretzki (Panel participant)

    28.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  22. Fortschritt bis zum Kollaps: Wie Zivilisationen an ökologischen Grenzen scheitern können

    Marcus Kronfeldt (Lecturer)

    10.12.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  23. Annual International Conference of the Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe" - KFG 2013

    Vera van Hüllen (presenter)

    12.12.201314.12.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  24. Containing and Accomodating Salafism in the Sahel: Insights and Lessons from Niger

    Sebastian Elischer (Oral presentation)

    12.12.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  25. 2014
  26. Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung e.V. (AFK) (External organisation)

    Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop (Member)

    2014 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic networks or partnershipsResearch

  27. German National Academic Foundation (External organisation)

    Jens Newig (Office)

    20142022

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  28. Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (External organisation)

    Michael Koß (Member)

    20142019

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesResearch

  29. Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (External organisation)

    Michael Koß (Member)

    20142019

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesResearch

  30. Professor Müller-Rommel im internationalem Beirat am European University Institute, Florenz

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Consultant)

    2014

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  31. Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica (Journal)

    Michael Koß (Editorial Board)

    2014 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  32. University of California, Irvine

    Christian Welzel (Visiting researcher)

    2014

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  33. Key Lecture: "Human Empowerment as an Analytical Framework to Study Social and Political Change"

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    01.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  34. University of California, Irvine

    Ina Kubbe (Visiting researcher)

    01.201404.2014

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  35. University of Siena

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Visiting researcher)

    01.01.201415.02.2014

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  36. Wahrheit und Wahrhaftigkeit

    Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)

    14.01.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  37. Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" 2014

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    16.01.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  38. Human Empowerment as an Analytical Framework to Study Social and Political Change

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    28.01.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  39. Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" 2015

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    30.01.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  40. 53rd Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association - WRSA 2014

    Christian Welzel (presenter)

    02.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    02.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  42. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Chair)

    02.201406.2014

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  43. 5th IPSA Summer School 2014

    Marcus Kronfeldt (Participant)

    02.02.201414.02.2014

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

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

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    12.02.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  45. Experimentelle Politik?

    Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)

    21.02.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Christian Welzel (presenter)

    03.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    03.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Ina Kubbe (Speaker)

    03.03.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  49. Sektionstagung der DVPW Sektion Policy-Analyse und Verwaltungswissenschaft 2014

    Thomas Saretzki (Organiser)

    17.03.201418.03.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    31.03.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  51. 4th Annual Research Conference of the Laboratory of Comparative Social Research - LCSR 2014

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    04.2014

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

  52. Book Presenation: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  55. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Member)

    04.201403.2016

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

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

    Christian Welzel (Lecturer)

    02.04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  57. Autocratic Adaptation, Autocratic Legacies and Fundamentalist Islam in Niger

    Sebastian Elischer (Lecturer)

    03.04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Christian Welzel (Lecturer)

    07.04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  59. 42nd Joint Sessions of Workshops of the European Consortium for Political Research - ECPRJS 2014

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (presenter)

    08.04.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    09.04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    28.04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  62. Summer Retreat of the BIGSSS 2014

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    05.2014

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

  63. Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" 2015

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    14.05.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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

    Christian Welzel (Keynote Speaker)

    21.05.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  65. 6. Kolloquium des Nachwuchsnetzwerkes Politische Kommunikation - NaPoKo 2014

    Jessica Sabrina Kunert (Organiser)

    06.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  66. 7. Doktoranden-Workshop des Norddeutsches Netzwerk der Demokratieforschung

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    06.2014

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

  67. Doktorandinnen- und Doktorandenworkshop der Sektion Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

    Ina Kubbe (Organiser)

    19.06.201420.06.2100

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  68. 110th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting and Exhibition - APSA 2014

    Christian Welzel (presenter)

    16.08.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  69. 110th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting and Exhibition - APSA 2014

    Sebastian Elischer (Participant)

    29.08.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  70. European University, Florenz

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Visiting researcher)

    09.201412.2014

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  71. Kolloquium "Politik von unten" - Arbeitskreis soziale Bewegung der DVPW

    Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop (Participant)

    09.2014

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

  72. 24th PhD Summer School on Political Parties in New Democracies

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Organiser), Esther Marie Seha (Organiser) & Ina Kubbe (Organiser)

    07.09.201413.09.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  73. Qualitative Research: Interviews

    Lena Wach (Participant)

    22.09.2014

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

  74. Data Analysis: MAXQDA

    Lena Wach (Participant)

    25.09.2014

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

  75. Colloquium Presentation: "How Civilization Turned into Human Empowerment"

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    10.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  76. Institute of Political Sciences (Organisational unit)

    Marion Reiser (Office)

    10.2014 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  77. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Marion Reiser (Member)

    10.2014 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  78. Annual Meeting, German Political Science Association - Comparative Politics Section 2013

    Christian Welzel (Participant)

    09.10.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  79. Colloquium an der Higher School of Economics

    Christian Welzel (Lecturer)

    15.10.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  80. Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" 2014

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    23.10.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  81. Understanding Corruption by Means of Experiments

    Ina Kubbe (Oral presentation)

    23.10.201424.10.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  82. Briefing Note: "Understanding Societal Development and Moral Progress: The Contribution of the World Values Surveys"

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  83. Colloquium Presentation at the Political Science Department, Georg-August-University, Goettingen

    Christian Welzel (presenter)

    11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  84. IPSA Research Committee on Political Sociology (External organisation)

    Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Executive member)

    11.2014

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesResearch

  85. Keynote Lecture: "How Civilization Turned into Human Empowerment"

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  86. Understanding Societal Development and Moral Progress: The Contribution of the World Values Surveys

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    05.11.201406.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  87. 4th Annual Research Conference of the Laboratory of Comparative Social Research - LCSR 2014

    Christian Welzel (Keynote speaker)

    09.11.201413.11.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  88. Workshop der HSE

    Christian Welzel (Keynote Speaker)

    10.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  89. Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" 2014

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    20.11.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  90. 57th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association - ASA 2014

    Sebastian Elischer (Speaker)

    21.11.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  91. 2nd Interdisciplinary Insights on Fraud and Corruption - I2FC 2014

    Ina Kubbe (presenter)

    22.11.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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

    Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)

    26.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  93. Guest Lecture: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"

    Christian Welzel (Lecturer)

    12.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  94. Keynote Lecture: "Can China Escape the Emancipatory Impulse of Modernization?"

    Christian Welzel (Lecturer)

    12.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  95. Corruption in Comparative Perspective

    Ina Kubbe (Oral presentation)

    02.12.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  96. Public Lecture Series "Global Politics" 2014

    Vera van Hüllen (Organiser)

    04.12.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  97. Interdisciplinary (Anti-)Corruption Research? Research project planning meets anti-corruption practitioners

    Ina Kubbe (Oral presentation)

    11.12.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  98. Can China Escape the Emancipatory Impulse of Modernization?

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    12.12.201413.12.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Christian Welzel (Speaker)

    16.12.201417.12.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  100. 2015
  101. Politikberatung

    Michael Koß (Consultant)

    2015 → …

    Activity: Consultancy

  102. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Marion Reiser (Member)

    2015 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees