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Staffan Ingemar Lindberg
Professor
Department of Political ScienceAbout Staffan Ingemar Lindberg
Professor, Dept. of Pol. Sci., Univ. of Gothenburg, xlista@gu.se
Founding Director, V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg,
PI, V-Dem Project, Varieties of Democracy, sil@v-dem.net
Wallenberg Academy Fellow 2014-2018 + prolongation 2019-2023
ERC Consolidator Grant, 2017-2022
Background
Staffan I. Lindberg holds a PhD (2005) from Lund University, Sweden. His dissertation won the American Political Science Association's Juan Linz Award for best dissertation 2005. He was assistant professor at Kent State University (2005-2006), assistant/associate professor at University of Florida (2006-2013), and has been with University of Gothenburg since 2010, full professor since 2013.
Interests
Comparative Politics, Democracy and Democratization, Africa, Political Institutions, Public Opinion, Representation, Legislatures, Members of Parliament, Corruption and Clientelism
Editorial/Executive Boards
Chair, Scientific Committe, Infrastructure Grants, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 2019-present.
Member, Expert Group for Aid Studies, 2019-present.
Member, Editorial Board, Politics and Governance, Democratization, African Journal of Democracy, Journal of Geopolitics, History, and International Relations.
Chair , Scientific Committee, Support to Research Infrastructure, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
Current Research
Lindberg's main current occupation is as Director of the V-Dem Institute at University of Gothenburg and one of four Principal Investigators for Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem). The research infrastructure and the data collection of the V-Dem Institute at University of Gothenburg is now part of the national research infrastructure Demscore which Lindberg also is PI and Director for, supported by financially by Swedish Research Council and the four participating universities (universities of Gothenburg, Uppsala, Stockholm, and Umeå). The research infrastructure at the V-Dem Institute is also supported by the EU (EC/INTPA), Ministry of Foreign Affairs-Sweden, and the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. Previously, support has come from among others, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Ministry of Foreign Affairs-DK, CIDA, NORAD, the National Science Foundations of Norway and Denmark, as well as through ERC research grants to Anja Neurndorff/Nottingham University and Carl Henrik Knutsen/University of Oslo.
See also the V-Dem Institute's homepage at University of Gothenburg, and the program V-Dem website. He and his collaborators were awarded the prestigeous "Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Data Set Award 2016” for best data set in comparative politics. American Political Science Association, Comparative Politics Section.
Lindberg leads several research programs at the V-Dem Institute, including the "Failing and Successful Sequences of Democratisation", Varieties of Autocracy", "Endangered Democracies", and "Case for Democracy" supported by the ERC, K&A Wallenberg Foundation, M&M Wallenberg Foundation, Swedish Research Council, the EU (EC/INTPA), and University of Gothenburg. More information about these research programs can also be found at the V-Dem website.
He is a Wallenberg Academy Scholar, former member of the Young Academy of Sweden & Professor of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; holder of an ERC consolidator Grant, and member of several advisory and executive boards, including the expert group for aid studies (EBA) linked to the Swedish government. He has previous served on Board of University of Gothenburg, the executive of APSA's Comparative Politics Section, as Editor and Vice-Chair of the APCG, the co-PI for the research consortium “African Power and Politics” 2007-2009, and has won 40+ grants from both US and in European funders.
His book, Democracy and Elections in Africa (Johns Hopkins UP, 2006) demonstrates the positive causal effect of elections on the spread of democracy. It was awarded "Outstanding Title" by Chocie in 2007. In a collaborative follow-up project, the causal role of elections in processes of both autocratization and democratization were investigated on a global scale. Lindberg is the editor of the resulting volume Democratization by Elections - A New Mode of Transition (Johns Hopkins UP, 2009), as well as co-author of Varieties of Democracy (CUP 2020), Why Democracies Develop and Decline (CUP 2022). His articles on women’s representation, political clientelism, voting behavior, party and electoral systems, democratization, popular attitudes, and the Ghanaian legislature and executive-legislative relationships have appeared in for example AJPS, World Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Journal of Politics, Political Science Quarterly, World Development, Party Politics, European Journal of Political Research, Electoral Studies, Studies in International Comparative Development, Journal of Democracy, International Political Science Review, Political Science Research and Methods, Government and Opposition, Journal of Modern African Studies, and Democratization. Lindberg has worked as election observer several times and been appraiser and reviewer of donors program in several Africa countries.
He has also done in-depth work on Ghana, and has published on political clientelism, voting behavior and party alignment, as well as the workings of the Ghanaian legislature. He taught at Lund University, then Kent State University and University of Florida where he was Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. He spent two years in Ghana as parliamentary advisor, and consults on a regular basis for donors in Africa.
More information can also be found at:
Public Google Scholar:
http://scholar.google.se/citations?user=aW96DOEAAAAJ
SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=864348
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State of the world 2024: 25 years of autocratization – democracy
trumped?
Marina Nord, Fabio Angiolillo, Ana Good God, Staffan I. Lindberg
Democratization - 2025 -
Party Systems, Democratic Positions, and Regime Changes: Introducing the Party-System Democracy
Index
Fabio Angiolillo, Felix Wiebrecht, Staffan I. Lindberg
British Journal of Political Science - 2025 -
When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since
1900
Marina Nord, Fabio Angiolillo, Martin Lundstedt, Felix Wiebrecht, Staffan I. Lindberg
DEMOCRATIZATION - 2025 -
Democracy Winning and Losing at the Ballot: Democracy Report
2024
Marina Nord, Martin Lundstedt, David Altman, Fabio Angiolillo, Cecilia Borella, Tiago Fernandes, Lisa Gastaldi, Ana Good God, Natalia Natsika, Staffan I. Lindberg
2024 -
Democracy’s Core Institution – Clean Elections Across the
World
Marina Nord, Juraj Medzihorsky, Staffan I. Lindberg
2024 -
Forecasting Electoral
Violence
David Randahl, Maxine Leis, Tim Gåsste, Hanne Fjelde, Havard Hegre, Staffan I. Lindberg, Steven Wilson
2024 -
Experts, coders and crowds: An analysis of
substitutability
Kyle L. Marquardt, Daniel Pemstein, Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca, Brigitte Seim, Steven Lloyd Wilson, Michael Bernhard, Michael Coppedge, Staffan I. Lindberg
INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW - 2024 -
State of the world 2023: democracy winning and losing at the
ballot
Fabio Angiolillo, Marina Nord, Martin Lundstedt, Staffan I. Lindberg
Democratization - 2024 -
Episodes of regime
transformation
S. F. Maerz, A. B. Edgell, M. C. Wilson, S. Hellmeier, Staffan I Lindberg
Journal of Peace Research - 2024 -
Conceptual and Measurement Issues in Assessing Democratic
Backsliding
Carl Henrik Knutsen, Kyle L. Marquardt, Brigitte Seim, Michael Coppedge, Amanda B. Edgell, Juraj Medzihorsky, Daniel Pemstein, Jan Teorell, John Gerring, Staffan I. Lindberg
PS-POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICS - 2024 -
When autocratization is reversed: Episodes of democratic turnarounds since
1900
Marina Nord, Fabio Angiolillo, Martin Lundstedt, Felix Wiebrecht, Staffan I. Lindberg
2024 -
Walking the Talk: How to Identify Anti-Pluralist
Parties
Juraj Medzihorsky, Staffan I. Lindberg
Party Politics - 2024 -
Democracy report 2024: Democracy winning and losing at the
ballot
Marina Nord, Martin Lundstedt, David Altman, Fabio Angiolillo, Cecilia Borella, Tiago Fernandes, Lisa Gastaldi, Ana Good-God, Staffan I. Lindberg
2024 -
Episodes of liberalization in autocracies: a new approach to quantitatively studying
democratization
Matthew C. Wilson, Juraj Medzihorsky, S. F. Maerz, P. Lindenfors, Amanda B Edgell, Vanessa Alexandra Boese, Staffan I. Lindberg
Political Science Research and Methods - 2023 -
Chains in Episodes of
Democratization
Kelly Morrison, Martin Lundstedt, Yuko Sato, Vanessa Alexandra Boese, Klas Markström, Staffan I Lindberg
2023 -
Disinformation and Episodes of Regime
Transformation
Yuko Sato, Felix Wiebrecht, Staffan I Lindberg
2023 -
State of the world 2022: defiance in the face of
autocratization
Felix Wiebrecht, Yuko Sato, Marina Nord, Martin Lundstedt, Fabio Angiolillo, Staffan I. Lindberg
Democratization - 2023 -
Democracy Report 2023: Defiance in the Face of
Autocratization
Evie Papada, David Altman, Fabio Angiolillo, Martin Lundstedt, Marina Nord, Yuko Sato, Felix Wiebrecht, Staffan I Lindberg
2023 -
Conceptual and Measurement Issues in Assessing Democratic
Backsliding
Carl Henrik Knutsen, Kyle L. Marquardt, Brigitte Seim, Michael Coppedge, Juraj Medzihorsky, Amanda B Edgell, Daniel Pemstein, Jan Teorell, John Gerring, Staffan I. Lindberg
2023 -
Democratic-Autocratic Party Systems: A New
Index
Fabio Angiolillo, Felix Wiebrecht, Staffan I. Lindberg
2023 -
The Forum: Global Challenges to Democracy? Perspectives on Democratic
Backsliding
L. M. Bartels, U. E. Daxecker, S. D. Hyde, Staffan I. Lindberg, I. Nooruddin
International Studies Review - 2023 -
State of the world 2021: autocratization changing its
nature?
Vanessa Alexandra Boese, Martin Lundstedt, Kelly Morrison, Yuko Sato, Staffan I Lindberg
Democratization - 2022 -
Assessing Data Quality: An Approach and An
Application
Kelly McMann, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim, Jan Teorell, Staffan I. Lindberg
Political Analysis - 2022 -
Why democracies develop and
decline
Michael Coppedge, Amanda B. Edgell, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Staffan I Lindberg
2022 -
Institutional Order in Episodes of
Autocratization
Yuko Sato, Martin Lundstedt, Kelly Morrison, Vanessa Alexandra Boese, Staffan I. Lindberg
2022 -
Clientelism, corruption and the rule of
law
Staffan I Lindberg, Maria C. Lo Bue, Kunal Sen
World Development - 2022 -
Waves of autocratization and democratization: a
rejoinder
Vanessa Alexandra Boese, Staffan I Lindberg, Anna Lührmann
Democratization - 2021 -
State of the world 2020: autocratization turns
viral
Sebastian Hellmeier, Rowan Cole, Sandra Grahn, Palina Kolvani, Jean Lachapelle, Anna Lührmann, Seraphine Maerz, Shreeya Pillai, Staffan I. Lindberg
Democratization - 2021 -
Bio-Dem, a tool to explore the relationship between biodiversity data availability and socio-political conditions in time and
space
A. Zizka, Oskar Rydén, Daniel Edler, Johannes Klein, Allison L. Perrigo, Daniele Silvestro, Sverker C. Jagers, Staffan I. Lindberg, Alexandre Antonelli
Journal of Biogeography - 2021 -
Explaining Subnational Regime Variation: Country-Level
Factors
Kelly McMann, M. Maguire, J. Gerring, Michael Coppedge, Staffan I Lindberg
Comparative politics - 2021 -
Constitutional Reform and the Gender Diversification of Peak
Courts
N. A.N.C.Y. Arrington, Leeann Bass, A. D.A.M. Glynn, Jeffrey K. Staton, Brian Delgado, Staffan I Lindberg
American Political Science Review - 2021 -
How democracies prevail: democratic resilience as a two-stage
process
Vanessa Alexandra Boese, Amanda B Edgell, Sebastian Hellmeier, Seraphine Maerz, Staffan I. Lindberg
Democratization - 2021 -
State of the world 2019: autocratization surges - resistance
grows
Seraphine Maerz, Anna Lührmann, Sebastian Hellmeier, Sandra Grahn, Staffan I Lindberg
Democratization - 2020 -
Why Low Levels of Democracy Promote Corruption and High Levels Diminish
It
K. M. McMann, B. Seim, J. Teorell, Staffan I Lindberg
Political Research Quarterly - 2020 -
Explaining the homogeneous diffusion of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions across heterogeneous
countries
A. Sebhatu, K. Wennberg, S. Arora-Jonsson, Staffan I Lindberg
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2020 -
The Matthew effect in political science: head start and key reforms important for
democratization
P. Lindenfors, Matthew C. Wilson, Staffan I Lindberg
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications - 2020 -
Data for Politics: Creating an International Research Infrastructure Measuring
Democracy.
Staffan I. Lindberg, Juraj Medzihorsky
Patterns - 2020 -
On
revolutions
A. M. Leroi, B. Lambert, M. Mauch, M. Papadopoulou, S. Ananiadou, Staffan I Lindberg, Patrik Lindenfors
Palgrave Communications - 2020 -
Institutionalising electoral uncertainty and authoritarian regime
survival
M. Bernhard, Amanda B Edgell, Staffan I Lindberg
European Journal of Political Research - 2020 -
Successful and Failed Episodes of Democratization: Conceptualization, Identification, and
Description
Matthew C. Wilson, Richard Morgan, Juraj Medzihorsky, Laura Maxwell, Seraphine Maerz, Anna Lührmann, Patrik Lindenfors, Amanda B Edgell, Vanessa Alexandra Boese, Staffan I. Lindberg
2020 -
Establishing Pathways to Democracy Using Domination
Analysis
Amanda B Edgell, Vanessa Alexandra Boese, Seraphine Maerz, Patrik Lindenfors, Staffan I Lindberg
2020 -
Deterring Dictatorship: Explaining Democratic Resilience since
1900
Vanessa Alexandra Boese, Amanda B Edgell, Sebastian Hellmeier, Seraphine Maerz, Staffan I. Lindberg
2020 -
Exploring the Impact of Political Regimes on
Biodiversity
Alexander Zizka, Oskar Rydén, Daniel Edler, Johannes Klein, Heléne Aronsson, Allison Perrigo, Daniele Silvestro, Sverker C. Jagers, Staffan I. Lindberg, Alexandre Antonelli
2020 -
Explaining the Homogeneous Diffusion of Covid-19 Policies among Heterogenous
Countries
Abiel Sebhatu, Karl Wennberg, Stefan Arora-Jonsson, Staffan I. Lindberg
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America - 2020 -
Linking democracy and biodiversity conservation: Empirical evidence and research
gaps
Oskar Rydén, Alexander Zizka, Sverker C. Jagers, Staffan I Lindberg, Alexandre Antonelli
Ambio - 2020 -
Parties, Civil Society, and the Deterrence of Democratic
Defection
M. Bernhard, A. Hicken, C. Reenock, Staffan I. Lindberg
Studies in Comparative International Development - 2020 -
The Accountability Sequence: from De-Jure to De-Facto Constraints on
Governments
Valeriya Mechkova, Anna Lührmann, Staffan I. Lindberg
Studies in Comparative International Development - 2019 -
Cabinets, Prime Ministers and Corruption. A Comparative Analysis of Parliamentary Governments in Post-war
Europe.
Hannah Bäck, Jan Teorell, Staffan I. Lindberg
Political Studies - 2019 -
Measuring Polyarchy Across the Globe,
1900–2017
Jan Teorell, Michael Coppedge, Staffan I Lindberg, Svend Erik Skaaning
Studies in Comparative International Development - 2019 -
The Methodology of “Varieties of Democracy”
(V-Dem)
Michael Coppedge, John Gerring, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Joshua Krusell, Juraj Medzihorsky, Josefine Pernes, Svend Erik Skaaning, Natalia Stepanova, Jan Teorell, Eitan Tzelgov, Steven L. Wilson, Staffan I. Lindberg
BMS Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/ Bulletin de Methodologie Sociologique - 2019
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