Norma Osterberg-Kaufmann

Curriculum

• Since 2013: Senior lecturer at the Chair of "The Political System of Germany in the European Context", Department of Political Science at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany and member of the ZDEMO - Zentrum für Demokratieforschung.
• 2005-2011: Dr. Phil. in Political Science, Institute of Social Science/Berlin Graduate School of Social Science, Humboldt-University Berlin. “Causes of success and failure of transformation processes based on the cases of Albania and Croatia.” Prof. Wolfgang Merkel. Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
• 1998-2004: Master degree in Political Science, History and Science of Education, Institute of Humanities, Social Science and Education, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. "Democratization process in Albania on the background of the theory of ´defective democracies` and the operationalisation of horizontal accountability."

Research interests

• Research on Legitimacy
• Measuring Attitudes, Norms and Values
• Understanding of Democracy
• Democratization
• Empirical Social Research
• Transformation Processes in Eastern- and Southeastern Europe

Teaching

• The Political System of Germany and the EU
• Comparative Politics
• Political Theory