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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Jan Teorell is a researcher affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden. Their work primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Demography, Development, and Economics and Econometrics.

Teorell's research topics include Political Conflict and Governance, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Culture, Economy, and Development Studies, International Development and Aid, Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research, Historical Economic and Social Studies, and Corruption and Economic Development.

Among their recent publications are:

  • "V-Dem Codebook v11" (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • "The Quality of Government Standard Dataset, version Jan21" (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • "V-Dem Dataset v11.1" (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • "V-Dem Codebook V10" (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • "Why Monarchy? The Rise and Demise of a Regime Type" (2020, Comparative Political Studies)

Teorell collaborates frequently with a group of co-authors, including Carl Henrik Knutsen, John Gerring, Staffan I. Lindberg, Michael Coppedge, and Daniel Pemstein.

Their research has appeared predominantly in the following publication venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Comparative Political Studies
  • Political Analysis
  • PS Political Science & Politics

Teorell has also contributed to book publications with Cambridge University Press and the University of East Anglia. Notable book titles include "The Selection and Tenure of Foreign Ministers Around the World" (2024) and "V-Dem [Country-year/country-date]: Dataset V11. 1" (2020).

Best Publications

  • What Is Quality of Government? A Theory of Impartial Government Institutions

    Bo Rothstein;Jan Teorell

  • Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: A New Approach

    Michael Coppedge;Michael Coppedge;John Gerring;David Altman;Michael Bernhard

  • Why Anticorruption Reforms Fail—Systemic Corruption as a Collective Action Problem

    Anna Persson;Bo Rothstein;Jan Teorell

  • Pathways from Authoritarianism

    Axel Hadenius;Jan Teorell

  • Att fråga och att svara: Samhällsvetenskaplig metod

    Jan Teorell;Torsten Svensson

  • Determinants of Democratization: Explaining Regime Change in the World, 1972–2006

    Jan Teorell

  • Political Participation: Mapping the Terrain

    Jan Teorell;Mariano Torcal;José Ramón Montero

  • V-Dem Dataset V6.2

    Michael Coppedge;John Gerring;Staffan I. I. Lindberg;Svend-Erik Skaaning

  • V-Dem Codebook V8

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

  • The Merit of Meritocratization: Politics, Bureaucracy, and the Institutional Deterrents of Corruption

    Carl Dahlström;Victor Lapuente;Jan Teorell

  • Political participation and three theories of democracy: A research inventory and agenda

    Jan Teorell

  • Authoritarian regime types revisited: updated data in comparative perspective

    Michael Wahman;Jan Teorell;Axel Hadenius

  • Cultural and Economic Prerequisites of Democracy: Reassessing Recent Evidence

    Axel Hadenius;Jan Teorell

  • Assessing Alternative Indices of Democracy

    Axel Hadenius;Jan Teorell

  • V-Dem: A New Way to Measure Democracy

    Staffan I. Lindberg;Michael Coppedge;John Gerring;Jan Teorell

  • Linking Social Capital to Political Participation: Voluntary Associations and Networks of Recruitment in Sweden

    Jan Teorell

  • V-Dem Codebook v11

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  • A Deliberative Defence of Intra-Party Democracy:

    Jan Teorell

  • Explaining thewelfare state: power resources vs. the Quality of Government

    Bo Rothstein;Marcus Samanni;Jan Teorell

  • The failure of Anti-Corruption Policies A Theoretical Mischaracterization of the Problem

    Anna Persson;Bo Rothstein;Jan Teorell

  • Determinants of Democratization: List of tables

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  • The Quality of Government Standard Dataset, version Jan21

    Jan Teorell;Aksel Sundström;Sören Holmberg;Bo Rothstein

  • Quality of Government

    Jan Teorell;Bo Rothstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Staffan I. Lindberg
Staffan I. Lindberg University of Gothenburg
John Gerring
John Gerring The University of Texas at Austin
Bo Rothstein
Bo Rothstein University of Gothenburg
Svend-Erik Skaaning
Svend-Erik Skaaning Aarhus University
Hanna Bäck
Hanna Bäck Lund University
Sören Holmberg
Sören Holmberg University of Gothenburg
Jeffrey K. Staton
Jeffrey K. Staton Emory University
Staffan Kumlin
Staffan Kumlin University of Oslo
David Altman
David Altman Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Pamela Paxton
Pamela Paxton The University of Texas at Austin

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