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Dr. Michael Rose

Michael Rose
21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C40.305
Fon +49.4131.677-1391, michael.rose@leuphana.de
Research associate, Institute of Political Sciences

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Vita

Michael Rose is a post-doctoral researcher, coordinator and lecturer with the Key Subject Area "Democratic Resilience: Democracy’s Sustainability in the Global Polycrisis Era" ("Embracing Transformation" program) at the Center for the Study of Democracy and the Institute of Political Science, Leuphana University Lüneburg.

 He holds a diploma (2012, University of Bamberg) and a doctorate (2016, University of Düsseldorf) in Political Science.

He is co-editor of the Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (Q1) and co-convener of the Earth System Governance Taskforce on Knowledge Cumulation.

Academic CV

  • Since 2025: Post-Doctoral Research Associate (scientific coordinator), Key Subject Area "Democratic Resilience: Democracy’s Sustainability in the Global Polycrisis Era" ("Embracing Transformation" program) at the Center for the Study of Democracy and the Institute of Political Science, School of Public Affairs, Leuphana University Lüneburg
  • Winter term 2024/25: Administrative (interim) Professor of Governance and Sustainability, Leuphana University Lüneburg
  • 2023-2026: Associate Editor, since 2026 Co-Editor of the Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
  • 2018-2025: Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Research Group on Governance, Participation and Sustainability (Prof. Newig), School of Sustainability, Leuphana University Lüneburg
  • 2016-2018: Scientific Coordinator, head office, Center for Transformation Research and Sustainability, University of Wuppertal
  • 2015-2018: Research Fellow, project: Well-Being Transformation Wuppertal (WTW) - an Urban Transition Laboratory for Sustainable Economics, Center for Transformation Research and Sustainability, University of Wuppertal
  • 2014, 2016 & 2017: Lecturer at the Chair of Political Science II, University of Düsseldorf
  • 2012-2015: Doctoral research fellow (scholarship) at the interdisciplinary post graduate programme "Linkage in Democracy (LinkDe)", Institute of Social Sciences, University of Düsseldorf
  • 2005-2012: Student of Political Science (Diploma, equivalent to master's degree), including Public Administration, International Relations, and Philosophy, University of Bamberg

Teaching

  • Comparative politics and policy analysis
  • Sustainability governance
  • Inter- and transdisciplinary research

Research Interests

  • democracy research
  • sustainability research
  • sustainability state & sustainability institutions
  • sustainability governance
  • comparative politics
  • institutional proxy representation of future generations
  • institutions for future generations
  • intergenerational equity
  • knowledge cumulation
  • real-world laboratories and transdiciplinary methods

Projects

  1. Embracing Transformation: Democratic Resilience — Democracy’s Sustainability in the Global Polycrisis Era
    Jens Newig (Project manager, academic) , Astrid Séville (Project manager, academic) , Christian Welzel (Project manager, academic) , Michael Rose (Coordination) , Lennart Bade (Project staff)
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    Project: Research

  2. Knowlege cumulation in environmental and sustainability governance research
    Jens Newig (Project manager, academic) , Michael Rose (Project manager, academic)
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    Project: Research

  3. Participation Case Scout
    Jens Newig (Project manager, academic) , Michael Rose (Project manager, academic)
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    Project: Other

  4. Future generations in present-day democracy. The theory and practice of proxy representation.
    Michael Rose (Project manager, academic)
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    Project: Dissertation project

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Publications

Books and anthologies

  1. Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research
    Michael Rose (Editor) , Jens Newig (Editor) , Sina Leipold (Editor) , 2026

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research

  2. Zukünftige Generationen in der heutigen Demokratie: Theorie und Praxis der Proxy-Repräsentation
    Michael Rose (Author) , 2018 Wiesbaden , 584 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review

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Journal contributions

  1. Rethinking scientific progress in the social sciences: disruptive or cumulative?
    Jens Newig (Author) , Michael Rose (Author) , Zühre Aksoy (Author) , Simon Beaudoin (Author) , Thomas Bolognesi (Author) , Oliver Fritsch (Author) , Dries Hegger (Author) , Benjamin Hofmann (Author) , Nicolas W. Jager (Author) , Elke Kellner (Author) , Sina Leipold (Author) , Åsa Persson (Author) , Hens Runhaar (Author) , Robert Webb (Author) , 01.05.2026 , in: Research Policy, 55, 4 , 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  2. Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research
    Michael Rose (Author) , Jens Newig (Author) , Sina Leipold (Author) , 01.02.2026 , in: Environmental Policy and Governance, 36, 1 , p. 18-25 , 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research › peer-review

  3. Providing orientation in a fragmented field of research: the critical review series of the Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
    Michael Rose (Author) , 01.01.2026 , in: Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 28, 2 , p. 191-196 , 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research

  4. How to Assess Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research? Conceptual and Empirical Explorations
    Jens Newig (Author) , Michael Rose (Author) , 01.08.2025 , in: Environmental Policy and Governance, 35, 4 , p. 662-681 , 20 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  5. Does participatory governance help address long-term environmental problems?: Conceptualization and evidence from 23 democracies
    Michael Rose (Author) , Jens Newig (Author) , Nicolas Wilhelm Jager (Author) , 21.07.2025 , in: Policy Studies , p. 1-25 , 25 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  6. From the environmental state to the sustainability state? Conceptualization, indicators, and examples
    Michael Rose (Author) , 03.03.2025 , in: Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 21, 1 , 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  7. Can we represent future generations in myopic democracies?: Analyzing the design, feasibility and viability of institutional guardians of future generations
    Michael Rose (Author) , 26.12.2024 , in: Policy Studies , 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  8. Institutional Proxy Representatives of Future Generations: A Comparative Analysis of Types and Design Features
    Michael Rose (Author) , 08.03.2024 , in: Politics and Governance, 12 , p. 1-21 , 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  9. Toward the sustainability state? Conceptualizing national sustainability institutions and their impact on policy-making
    Okka Lou Mathis (Author) , Michael Rose (Author) , Jens Newig (Author) , Steffen Bauer (Author) , 01.06.2023 , in: Environmental Policy and Governance, 33, 3 , p. 313-324 , 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  10. Beyond practitioner and researcher: 15 roles adopted by actors in transdisciplinary and transformative research processes
    Annaliesa Hilger (Author) , Michael Rose (Author) , Andreas Keil (Author) , 01.11.2021 , in: Sustainability Science, 16, 6 , p. 2049-2068 , 20 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  11. Meeting the challenge of (co-)designing real-world laboratories: Insights from the Well-Being Transformation Wuppertal project
    Michael Rose (Author) , Katrin Maibaum (Author) , 15.10.2020 , in: GAIA, 29, 3 , p. 154-160 , 7 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  12. Cumulating evidence in environmental governance, policy and planning research: towards a research reform agenda
    Jens Newig (Author) , Michael Rose (Author) , 02.09.2020 , in: Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 22, 5 , p. 667-681 , 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. Umwelt-Governance und Partizipation
    Michael Rose (Author) , Jens Newig (Author) , 13.01.2024 2 ed. Wiesbaden , p. 759-774 , 16 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research

  2. Proxy-Repräsentation: Die institutionelle politische Repräsentation der Stimmlosen am Beispiel zukünftiger Generationen
    Michael Rose (Author) , 01.01.2021 Tübingen , p. 275-302 , 28 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research

  3. All-affected, Non-identity and the Political Representation of Future Generations: Linking Intergenerational Justice with Democracy
    Michael Rose (Author) , 19.03.2019 Leiden, Boston , p. 32-51 , 20 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review

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Activities

  1. Institutional proxy representation of future generations
    Michael Rose (Plenary speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  2. Wissenskumulation für die sozial-ökologische Transformation
    Michael Rose (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  3. Stellungsnahme für öffentliche Sachverständigenanhörung im Deutschen Bundestag zum Thema der Weiterentwicklung des Parlamentarischen Beirats für nachhaltige Entwicklung. 39. Sitzung des Parlamentarischen Beirats für nachhaltige Entwicklung.
    Michael Rose (Reviewer)

    Activity: Academic Consultant › Transfer

  4. Parliaments, Climate Change, and Intergenerational Justice
    Michael Rose (Keynote Speaker) , Michael Rose (Panel participant)

    Activity: talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer

  5. Parliaments, Climate Change, and Intergenerational Justice
    Michael Rose (Keynote Speaker) , Michael Rose (Panel participant)

    Activity: talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer

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Prizes

  1. Intergenerational Justice Prize 2015-16 (3rd rank)
    (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research

  2. Promotionsstipendium 2012-2015
    (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research

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Courses

Research Seminar in Democracy Studies
Michael Rose
This class requires regular attendance in-person due to the format of the assignments. Online participation or non-regular attendance is not possible.

In this course, students conduct a research project the field of democracy studies (building on the theories and concepts learned in the Module "Institutions of Democracy"). After some input sessions about research designs with a particular focus on democracy research, students identify a relevant research question which they will try to answer in the research project. The research project includes the elaboration and concretization of the research question and the theoretical framework, the elaboration of a research design, the collection of data, their processing, as well as the actual data analysis. The lecturer provides input sessions on comparative methods and accompanies the students' individual research projects. In addition, the participants give each other feedback on their research projects. The students present the project idea at the beginning and their empirical results at the end of the semester. Eventually, they report on their research project in form of a research paper.
Next appointment:
Tuesday, 2026-10-13 at 14:15
Room: C 40.146 Seminarraum