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Staffan I. Lindberg

Staffan I. Lindberg

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Political Science
Sweden
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Political Science

D-Index
54
Citations
14646
World Ranking
174
National Ranking
3

Staffan I. Lindberg publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Staffan I. Lindberg sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 265 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Staffan I. Lindberg D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Staffan I. Lindberg sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 54 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

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.

Recent papers include:

  • "Explaining the homogeneous diffusion of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions across heterogeneous countries," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "V-Dem Codebook v11," 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "State of the world 2019: autocratization surges - resistance grows," 2020, Democratization
  • "How democracies prevail: democratic resilience as a two-stage process," 2021, Democratization
  • "V-Dem Dataset v11.1," 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal

They have also contributed to book publications, including "V-Dem [Country-year/country-date]:Dataset V11. 1" (2020), published by the University of East Anglia.

Among frequent coauthors are Carl Henrik Knutsen, Jan Teorell, John Gerring, Michael Coppedge, and Daniel Pemstein.

Best Publications

  • Democracy and Elections in Africa

    Staffan I. Lindberg

  • Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: A New Approach

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

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

    Anna Lührmann;Staffan I. Lindberg

  • 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

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

    Staffan I. Lindberg;Minion K.C. Morrison

  • Democracy and Elections in Africa

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

    Anna Lührmann;Marcus Tannenberg;Staffan I. Lindberg

  • V-Dem: A New Way to Measure Democracy

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

  • Democratization by elections : a new mode of transition

    Staffan I. Lindberg

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

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

  • V-Dem Codebook v11

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  • Democratization by Elections

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  • How Much Democratic Backsliding

    Valeriya Mechkova;Anna Lührmann;Staffan I. Lindberg

  • The Surprising Significance of African Elections

    Staffan I. Lindberg

  • Mapping accountability: core concept and subtypes

    Staffan I Lindberg

  • Measuring High Level Democratic Principles using the V-Dem Data

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

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

    Staffan I. Lindberg

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

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

  • V-Dem Codebook V10

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  • Measuring Polyarchy Across the Globe, 1900–2017

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

  • What Drives the Swing Voter in Africa

    Keith R. Weghorst;Staffan I. Lindberg

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

    Staffan I. Lindberg

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

    Carolien van Ham;Staffan I. Lindberg

  • State of the world 2017: autocratization and exclusion?

    Anna Lührmann;Valeriya Mechkova;Sirianne Dahlum;Laura Maxwell

  • Consequences of electoral systems in Africa: a preliminary inquiry

    Staffan I. Lindberg

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

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

  • Effective Opposition Strategies: Collective Goods or Clientelism?

    Keith R. Weghorst;Staffan I. Lindberg

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

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

  • State of the world 2020: autocratization turns viral

    Sebastian Hellmeier;Rowan Cole;Sandra Grahn;Palina Kolvani

  • Parties, Civil Society, and the Deterrence of Democratic Defection

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

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

    Staffan I. I. Lindberg;Devra Coren Moehler

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Coppedge
Michael Coppedge University of Notre Dame
Jan Teorell
Jan Teorell Stockholm University
John Gerring
John Gerring The University of Texas at Austin
Svend-Erik Skaaning
Svend-Erik Skaaning Aarhus University
Carl Henrik Knutsen
Carl Henrik Knutsen University of Oslo
Jeffrey K. Staton
Jeffrey K. Staton Emory University
Pamela Paxton
Pamela Paxton 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
Aksel Sundström
Aksel Sundström University of Gothenburg

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