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
- Guest lectures
Hochschulöffentlicher Vortrag: "Citizenship Education and Student Protests - Einblicke in ein binationales Forschungsprojekt zum Thema Citizenship Education in South Africa and Germany"
Tonio Oeftering (Speaker)
15.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Hochschulöffentlicher Vortrag: Citizenship Education and Student Protests - Einblicke in ein binationales Forschungsprojekt zum Thema Citizenship Education in South Africa and Germany"
Tonio Oeftering (Speaker)
28.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Hochschulöffentlicher Vortrag: Citizenship Education in South Africa and Germany - Einblicke in ein aktuelles binationales Forschungsprojekt
Tonio Oeftering (Speaker)
14.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Hochschulöffentlicher Vortrag : "Citizenship Education in South Africa and Germany - Einblicke in ein aktuelles Forschungsprojekt."
Tonio Oeftering (Speaker)
31.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Hochschulöffentlicher Vortrag: "Was ist politische Bildung" Eine qualitative Studie zu den Vorstellungen von Lehramtsstudierenden."
Tonio Oeftering (Speaker)
13.07.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
How Can We Measure Party Institutionalisation in Times of Personal Politics? A New Index and the Case of the Italian 5SM
Michelangelo Vercesi (Speaker)
13.03.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Human Empowerment as an Analytical Framework to Study Social and Political Change
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
28.01.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Inklusion und Politische Bildung - Thesen
Tonio Oeftering (Lecturer)
07.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Intensive Quantitative Methods Course for PhD students, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Stefan Kruse (Lecturer)
13.05.2019 → 18.05.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Interdisciplinary (Anti-)Corruption Research? Research project planning meets anti-corruption practitioners
Ina Kubbe (Oral presentation)
11.12.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
„Is it all about profit? Corruption in European Comparative Perspective”
Ina Kubbe (Lecturer)
10.11.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Is it all about profit?: Corruption in European Comparative Perspective
Ina Kubbe (Oral presentation)
11.10.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
“It’s all about profit: Determinants of Corruption in European Comparative Perspective”
Ina Kubbe (Lecturer)
11.07.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Key Lecture: "Human Empowerment as an Analytical Framework to Study Social and Political Change"
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
01.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Key Lecture: The Civic Culture Transformed: From Allegiant to Assertive Citizens
Christian Welzel (Lecturer)
07.04.2015 → 10.04.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Keynote: "From Sacrificing Life to Living It: Moral Evolution and the Emerging Mass Basis of Global Peace"
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
03.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Keynote Lecture: "Can China Escape the Emancipatory Impulse of Modernization?"
Christian Welzel (Lecturer)
12.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Keynote Lecture: "How Civilization Turned into Human Empowerment"
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Keyonte: Max Kaase: Researcher, Builder, Leader and Human Person – A Tribute to a Stellar Career
Christian Welzel (Lecturer)
22.06.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Klimawandel und Demokratie: Kipppunkte der Problembewältigung und Konfliktregelung?
Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)
10.05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Klimawandel - Was können wir tun? Anpassungsempfehlungen für Niedersachsen: (gem. mit Sabine Strube-Neumann, Nds. Ministerium für Umwelt, Energie und Klimaschutz)
Veit Ebermann (Oral presentation)
11.07.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
"Kritik und Widerstand - fachdidaktische Reflexionen"
Tonio Oeftering (Lecturer)
25.03.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Kritik und Widerstand - fachdidaktische Reflexionen
Tonio Oeftering (Lecturer)
25.03.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Landesgeschichte und Landespolitik – Anmerkungen zur Frage nach den „Quellen guter Landespolitik“ aus politikwissenschaftlicher Perspektive
Thomas Saretzki (Panel participant)
26.02.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Local Interest Representation in Multi-Level Parties
Marion Reiser (Lecturer)
25.08.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Local responses to international democracy promotion efforts: EU cooperation with Morocco & Tunisia before the Arab Spring
Vera van Hüllen (Oral presentation)
23.10.2015 → 24.10.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Max Kaase: Researcher, Builder, Leader and Human Person - A Tribute to a Stellar Career
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
05.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
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)
28.10.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Natur und Landschaft in der niedersächsischen Anpassungsstrategie an den Klimawandel
Veit Ebermann (Oral presentation)
22.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Organisation und Moderation der PluraL und ZDEMO Film- und Vortragsreihe "Angekommen? Lokale und globale Perspektiven auf Flucht, Migration und Zusammenleben" (zusammen mit Thekla de Carvalho Rodrigues)
Sybille Münch (Speaker)
01.10.2018 → 06.12.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Partizipation als Legitimationsgrundlage von Demokratie?: Der Beitrag politischer Beteiligungskultur zur Stabilität politischer Systeme
Vera van Hüllen (Lecturer)
17.08.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Party Government and Policy Performance in Central and Eastern European Parliamentary Democracies (1990-2010)
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Lecturer)
19.02.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Politik als Experiment?
Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)
12.01.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Politikwissenschaft in den Kulturwissenschaften
Vera van Hüllen (Panel participant)
27.01.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Politikwissenschaftliche Strategieanalyse als akteurorientierte Prozessforschung
Veit Ebermann (Oral presentation)
16.05.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Politische Diskurse über die Unternehmensbesteuerung
Alexander Leipold (Speaker)
27.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Politische Steuerung von Technisierungsprozessen?
Thomas Saretzki (Lecturer)
13.08.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Politisierung von Experimenten – Experimentalisierung des Politischen?
Thomas Saretzki (Lecturer)
18.01.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Science, Technology and Democracy: Interactions in Change
Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)
09.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Sind die Deutschen die Lehrmeister Europas?
Florian Grotz (Panel participant)
15.03.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Stadt und sozialer Zusammenhalt
Sybille Münch (Speaker)
21.02.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Stein Rokkan Award Ceremony: Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation
Christian Welzel (Oral presentation)
09.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Steuervermeidung im Binnenmarkt
Lukas Hakelberg (Speaker)
23.01.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Strategiebildung in der Klimaanpassungspolitik: Prioritätensetzung, Verantwortlichkeiten, Zuständigkeiten und der Umgang mit Unsicherheiten in Niedersachsen
Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)
27.02.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Strategieentwicklung in der Klimaanpassungspolitik: Niedersachsen und Bayern im Vergleich
Veit Ebermann (Oral presentation)
03.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Technikpolitik, Technikfolgen-Abschätzung und Partizipation
Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)
26.01.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
“The Bigger Picture of Corruption: A Comparative Analysis of Europe and the Rest of the World”, 03.03.2014.
Ina Kubbe (Speaker)
03.03.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Civic Culture Transformed: From Allegiant to Assertive Citizens
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
04.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Colonial Origins of Tax Havenry
Lukas Hakelberg (Speaker)
22.03.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The European Union as an external actor in the 'Arab Spring'
Vera van Hüllen (Lecturer)
30.05.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
The Future of the EU after Lisbon - the Crisis and Democracy in Europe
Dawid Friedrich (Lecturer)
2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Paradox of Democracy: Why Mass Support for Democracy Co-exists So Easily with Non-Democracy
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
09.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Rise of Izala Islam in Niger
Sebastian Elischer (Oral presentation)
25.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Whiteness of Wealth Management: Colonial Economic Structure, Racism, and the Emergence of Tax Havens in the British Caribbean
Lukas Hakelberg (Speaker)
29.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Understanding Corruption by Means of Experiments
Ina Kubbe (Oral presentation)
23.10.2014 → 24.10.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Understanding Societal Development and Moral Progress: The Contribution of the World Values Surveys
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
05.11.2014 → 06.11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
US Power and the Harmonization of Company Taxation in the EU
Lukas Hakelberg (Speaker)
20.03.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute
Stefan Kruse (Oral presentation)
27.03.2019 → 29.03.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Vergleichende Parlamentarismusforschung
Michael Koß (Speaker)
10.10.2019 → 11.10.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Von Kategorien zu Basis- und Fachkonzepten - alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen?
Tonio Oeftering (Lecturer)
21.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Vorlesung "Das deutsche Regierungssystem in vergleichender Perspektive"
Florian Grotz (Lecturer)
12.03.2012 → 16.03.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Vortrag
Christian Welzel (Speaker)
15.05.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Vortrag: Kooptation der "Freiwilligen Rückkehr" in das Migrationsmanagement
Sybille Münch (Speaker)
28.10.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Wahrheit und Wahrhaftigkeit
Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)
14.01.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Was heißt "kritische" Politikwissenschaft?
Thomas Saretzki (Panel participant)
28.11.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
"Was ist Politische Bildung? Eine empirische Erhebung der Vorstellungen von Lehramtsstudierenden."
Tonio Oeftering (Lecturer)
19.12.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Was sind epistemische Regime?
Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)
28.04.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Welche Rolle können Unternehmensdialoge im gesellschaftlichen Diskurs spielen? Wie ist der InfoDialog Fracking einzuordnen?: Plenar-Vortrag zusammen mit Dipl.-Umweltwiss. Basil Bornemann
Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)
25.04.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Wer oder was macht mich zur Persönlichkeit?
Thomas Saretzki (Speaker)
27.11.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
What is Human Rights Education? Scientific and didactic perspectives.
Tonio Oeftering (Lecturer)
22.04.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
'Wo das Sprechen aufhört, hört die Politik auf' (Hannah Arendt) - zur politischen Rhetorik in Zeiten der AfD, Pegidas & Co.
Tonio Oeftering (Lecturer)
25.04.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Workshop der HSE
Christian Welzel (Keynote Speaker)
10.11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Zur Zukunft der repräsentativen Demokratie
Dawid Friedrich (Speaker)
2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
- Consultancy
Sachverständiger im Finanzausschuss des Deutschen Bundestages zum ATAD-Umsetzungsgesetz
Lukas Hakelberg (Consultant)
03.05.2021Activity: Consultancy
- Academic councils, panels and committees
American Political Science Association (APSA) (External organisation)
Michael Koß (Member)
2010 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Constructor University Bremen (External organisation)
Christian Welzel (Coordinator)
2004 → 2006Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Education
German Political Science Association e.V. (External organisation)
Vera van Hüllen (Office)
24.09.2015 → 2018Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
German Political Science Association e.V. (External organisation)
Vera van Hüllen (Office)
2018 → 2021Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
German Political Science Association e.V. (External organisation)
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Member)
01.11.2016 → 30.10.2018Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
International Political Science Association (External organisation)
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Member)
01.09.2018 → 2020Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
IPSA Research Committee on Political Sociology (External organisation)
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Executive member)
11.2014Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (External organisation)
Michael Koß (Member)
2017 → 2019Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (External organisation)
Michael Koß (Member)
2014 → 2019Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (External organisation)
Michael Koß (Member)
2014 → 2019Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) (External organisation)
Michael Koß (Member)
2018Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Verein für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung e.V. (External organisation)
Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop (Coordinator)
11.09.2015 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
- Academic networks or partnerships
Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung e.V. (AFK) (External organisation)
Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop (Member)
2014 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
DFG-Forschungsinitiative Heterogenität der Universitäten Hamburg und Lüneburg 2011 (Event)
Andreas Lutter (Member)
06.2011Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) (External organisation)
Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop (Member)
2015 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
University of Bremen (External organisation)
Andreas Lutter (Member)
06.2011Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Victoria University of Wellington (External organisation)
Marion Reiser (Coordinator)
2015 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
- Bodies of public institutions
Earth System Governance Taskforce on Knowledge Cumulation (External organisation)
Jens Newig (Office)
2021 → …Activity: Membership › Bodies of public institutions › Transfer
German Research Foundation (DFG) (External organisation)
Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Member)
2012 → 2015Activity: Membership › Bodies of public institutions › Research
- Learned societies and special interest organisations
Deutsche Vereinigung für Parlamentsfragen e.V. (External organisation)
Michael Koß (Member)
2007 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
European Communication Research and Education Association (External organisation)
Björn Buß (Member)
2010 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
German Political Science Association e.V. (External organisation)
Thomas Saretzki (Member)
2017 → 2022Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research