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Overview

Anna Lührmann is affiliated with the Federal Foreign Office in Germany. Their research spans multiple aspects of political science, with a focus on governance, political conflict, and democratic processes.

The scientist's publication record includes influential works published in venues such as the American Political Science Review, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Democratization. Some of their recent papers include:

  • Constraining Governments: New Indices of Vertical, Horizontal, and Diagonal Accountability (2020), American Political Science Review
  • V-Dem Codebook v11 (2021), SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Resilience of democracies: responses to illiberal and authoritarian challenges (2021), Democratization
  • State of the world 2019: autocratization surges - resistance grows (2020), Democratization
  • What halts democratic erosion? The changing role of accountability (2021), Democratization

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Lührmann include:

  • Valeriya Mechkova
  • Kyle L. Marquardt
  • Staffan I. Lindberg
  • Seraphine F. Maerz
  • Michaël Bernhard

The scientist has published extensively across several venues, with a notable number of publications in:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Democratization
  • European Political Science Review
  • American Political Science Review

Their scholarly contributions are situated primarily within the field of social sciences, with key focus areas that include sociology and political science, political science and international relations, development, economics and econometrics, and law.

The main research topics covered by their work feature:

  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • International Development and Aid

Best Publications

  • A third wave of autocratization is here: what is new about it?

    Anna Lührmann;Staffan I. Lindberg

  • V-Dem Codebook V8

    Michael Coppedge;John Gerring;Carl Henrik Knutsen;Staffan I. Lindberg

  • Regimes of the World (RoW): Opening New Avenues for the Comparative Study of Political Regimes

    Anna Lührmann;Marcus Tannenberg;Staffan I. Lindberg

  • V-Dem Codebook v11

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  • How Much Democratic Backsliding

    Valeriya Mechkova;Anna Lührmann;Staffan I. Lindberg

  • V-Dem Codebook V10

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  • V-Dem Dataset v7

    Michael Coppedge;John Gerring;Carl Henrik Knutsen;Staffan I. Lindberg

  • V-Dem Dataset v11.1

    Michael Coppedge;John Gerring;Carl Henrik Knutsen;Staffan I. Lindberg

  • State of the world 2017: autocratization and exclusion?

    Anna Lührmann;Valeriya Mechkova;Sirianne Dahlum;Laura Maxwell

  • Constraining governments: New indices of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal accountability

    Anna Lührmann;Kyle L. Marquardt;Valeriya Mechkova

  • State of the world 2019: autocratization surges – resistance grows

    Seraphine F. Maerz;Anna Lührmann;Sebastian Hellmeier;Sandra Grahn

  • What halts democratic erosion? The changing role of accountability

    Melis G. Laebens;Anna Lührmann

  • Resilience of democracies: responses to illiberal and authoritarian challenges

    Wolfgang Merkel;Anna Lührmann

  • State of the world 2020: autocratization turns viral

    Sebastian Hellmeier;Rowan Cole;Sandra Grahn;Palina Kolvani

  • Pandemic backsliding: Violations of democratic standards during Covid-19.

    Amanda B. Edgell;Jean Lachapelle;Anna Lührmann;Seraphine F. Maerz

  • Autocratization by Decree: States of Emergency and Democratic Decline

    Anna Lührmann;Bryan Rooney

  • Disrupting the autocratization sequence: towards democratic resilience

    Anna Lührmann

  • Public trust in manipulated elections: The role of election administration and media freedom

    Nicholas Kerr;Anna Lührmann

  • Claiming the right to rule: regime legitimation strategies from 1900 to 2019

    Marcus Tannenberg;Michael Bernhard;Johannes Gerschewski;Anna Lührmann

  • State of the world 2018: democracy facing global challenges*

    Anna Lührmann;Sandra Grahn;Richard Morgan;Shreeya Pillai

  • Regimes In the World (RIW): A Robust Regime Type Measure based on V-Dem

    Anna Lührmann;Staffan I. Lindberg;Marcus Tannenberg

  • Democracy for All

    Anna Lührmann;Sirianne Dahlum;Staffan I. Lindberg;Laura Maxwell

Frequent Co-Authors

Staffan I. Lindberg
Staffan I. Lindberg University of Gothenburg
Jeffrey K. Staton
Jeffrey K. Staton Emory University
John Gerring
John Gerring The University of Texas at Austin
David Altman
David Altman Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
M. Steven Fish
M. Steven Fish University of California, Berkeley
Daniel Ziblatt
Daniel Ziblatt Harvard University
Svend-Erik Skaaning
Svend-Erik Skaaning Aarhus University
Jan Teorell
Jan Teorell Stockholm University
Pamela Paxton
Pamela Paxton The University of Texas at Austin
Aksel Sundström
Aksel Sundström University of Gothenburg

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