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Staffan Ingemar Lindberg

Professor

Department of Political 91探花
Telephone
+46 31-786 12 26
+46 733-76 15 40
Mail
staffan.i.lindberg@pol.gu.se
Visiting address
Spr盲ngkullsgatan 19
41123 G枚teborg
Postal address
Box 711
40530 G枚teborg

About Staffan Ingemar Lindberg

Professor, Dept. of Pol. Sci., Univ. 91探花, xlista@gu.se

Founding Director, , University 91探花,

PI,, 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 91探花 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 91探花 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 91探花 and one of four Principal Investigators for Varieties of Democracy (). The research infrastructure and the data collection of the V-Dem Institute at University 91探花 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 91探花, Uppsala, Stockholm, and Ume氓). 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 91探花 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 's homepage at University 91探花, and the program . He and his collaborators were awarded the prestigeous "Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Data Set Award 2016鈥 for best data set in comparative politics. American Political 91探花 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 91探花. More information about these research programs can also be found at the V-Dem website.

He is a , former member of the & Professor of Political 91探花, University 91探花, 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 91探花, the executive of APSA's Comparative Politics Section, as Editor and Vice-Chair of the APCG, the co-PI for the research consortium 鈥淎frican Power and Politics鈥 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 (CUP 2020), (CUP 2022). His articles on women鈥檚 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 91探花 Quarterly, World Development, Party Politics, European Journal of Political Research, Electoral Studies, Studies in International Comparative Development, Journal of Democracy, International Political 91探花 Review, Political 91探花 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 91探花. He spent two years in Ghana as parliamentary advisor, and consults on a regular basis for donors in Africa.

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