2026 Staffan I. Lindberg: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	54	174	151	3	3	265	14646

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Political Science in Sweden Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Political Science in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Staffan I. Lindberg is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with significant contributions across subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Law, Global and Planetary Change, and Development.

Their work addresses key topics such as Political Conflict and Governance, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Social Policy and Reform Studies, Corruption and Economic Development, Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research, Populism and Right-Wing Movements, and Politics and Society in Latin America.

Lindberg has published frequently in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, Democratization, Harvard Dataverse, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and the British Journal of Political Science.

Best Publications

Democracy and Elections in Africa

Staffan I. Lindberg

1134
Citations
Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: A New Approach

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

1115
Citations
A third wave of autocratization is here: what is new about it?

Anna Lührmann;Staffan I. Lindberg

892
Citations
V-Dem Dataset V6.2

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

625
Citations
V-Dem Codebook V8

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

552
Citations
Are African Voters Really Ethnic or Clientelistic? Survey Evidence from Ghana

Staffan I. Lindberg;Minion K.C. Morrison

504
Citations
Democracy and Elections in Africa

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483
Citations
Regimes of the World (RoW): Opening New Avenues for the Comparative Study of Political Regimes

Anna Lührmann;Marcus Tannenberg;Staffan I. Lindberg

404
Citations
V-Dem: A New Way to Measure Democracy

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

354
Citations
Democratization by elections : a new mode of transition

Staffan I. Lindberg

345
Citations
Women’s Political Empowerment: A New Global Index, 1900-2012

Aksel Sundström;Pamela Paxton;Yi Ting Wang;Yi Ting Wang;Staffan I. Lindberg

319
Citations
V-Dem Codebook v11

Unknown

276
Citations
Democratization by Elections

Unknown

270
Citations
How Much Democratic Backsliding

Valeriya Mechkova;Anna Lührmann;Staffan I. Lindberg

260
Citations
The Surprising Significance of African Elections

Staffan I. Lindberg

254
Citations
Mapping accountability: core concept and subtypes

Staffan I Lindberg

221
Citations
Measuring High Level Democratic Principles using the V-Dem Data

Michael Coppedge;Staffan I. Lindberg;Svend-Erik Skaaning;Jan Teorell

220
Citations
Institutionalization of Party Systems? Stability and Fluidity among Legislative Parties in Africa's Democracies

Staffan I. Lindberg

216
Citations
Explaining the homogeneous diffusion of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions across heterogeneous countries.

Abiel Sebhatu;Karl Wennberg;Stefan Arora-Jonsson;Staffan I Lindberg

195
Citations
V-Dem Codebook V10

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193
Citations
Measuring Polyarchy Across the Globe, 1900–2017

Jan Teorell;Michael Coppedge;Staffan Lindberg;Svend Erik Skaaning

178
Citations
What Drives the Swing Voter in Africa

Keith R. Weghorst;Staffan I. Lindberg

150
Citations
The Democratic Qualities of Competitive Elections: Participation, Competition and Legitimacy in Africa

Staffan I. Lindberg

148
Citations
From Sticks to Carrots: Electoral Manipulation in Africa, 1986–2012

Carolien van Ham;Staffan I. Lindberg

123
Citations
State of the world 2017: autocratization and exclusion?

Anna Lührmann;Valeriya Mechkova;Sirianne Dahlum;Laura Maxwell

115
Citations
Consequences of electoral systems in Africa: a preliminary inquiry

Staffan I. Lindberg

104
Citations
How democracies prevail: democratic resilience as a two-stage process.

Vanessa A. Boese;Amanda B. Edgell;Amanda B. Edgell;Sebastian Hellmeier;Seraphine F. Maerz

103
Citations
Effective Opposition Strategies: Collective Goods or Clientelism?

Keith R. Weghorst;Staffan I. Lindberg

94
Citations
State of the world 2019: autocratization surges – resistance grows

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

88
Citations
State of the world 2020: autocratization turns viral

Sebastian Hellmeier;Rowan Cole;Sandra Grahn;Palina Kolvani

69
Citations
Parties, Civil Society, and the Deterrence of Democratic Defection

Michael Bernhard;Allen Hicken;Christopher Reenock;Staffan I. Lindberg

68
Citations
Narrowing the Legitimacy Gap: Turnovers as a Cause of Democratic Consolidation

Staffan I. I. Lindberg;Devra Coren Moehler

23
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Teorell Stockholm University

John Gerring The University of Texas at Austin

Svend-Erik Skaaning Aarhus University

Jeffrey K. Staton Emory University

David Altman Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Pamela Paxton The University of Texas at Austin

M. Steven Fish University of California, Berkeley

Aksel Sundström University of Gothenburg

Andrew Reynolds University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Matthijs Bogaards Central European University

External Links

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