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    • A Framework for Understanding Regime Transformation: Introducing the ERT Dataset 

      Maerz, Seraphine F.; Edgell, Amanda B.; Wilson, Matthew C.; Hellmeier, Sebastian; Lindberg, Staffan I. (V-Dem Institute, 2021-02)
      Gradual processes of democratization and autocratization have gained increased attention in the literature. Assessing such processes in a comparative framework remains a challenge, however, due to their under-conceptualization ...
    • Are Swing Voters Instruments of Democracy or Farmers of Clientelism? Evidence from Ghana 

      Lindberg, Staffan I.; Weghorst, Keith R. (2010-06)
      This paper is one of the first to systematically address the question of whether strength of ethnic identity, political parties’ candidates campaign strategies, poverty, or evaluation of clientelism versus collective/public ...
    • Beyond First Elections: The Importance of Consistency in the Timing of Recurrent Elections 

      Wilson, Matthew Charles (2016)
      Is the regularity of elections a requisite for political stability? Scholars have empirically examined a number of features regarding elections in new democracies, including frequency, alternation, and orderliness, but ...
    • Can Efficient Institutions Induce Cooperation Among Low Trust Agents? 

      Strimling, Pontus; Lindberg, Staffan I.; Ehn, Micael; Eriksson, Kimmo; Rothstein, Bo (2013-04)
      The importance of political institutions for economic growth and social well-being has been demonstrated in a number of studies. Societies in which agents trust that other agents will collaborate in establishing and ...
    • Choosing from the Menu of Manipulation: Explaining Incumbents’ Choices of Electoral Manipulation Tactics 

      van Ham, Carolien; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2016)
      How do political actors choose between different tactics of electoral manipulation, and how does the context in which elections take place shape those decisions? In this paper we argue that choices for specific manipulative ...
    • Civil Society, Party Institutionalization, and Democratic Breakdown in the Interwar Period 

      Cornell, Agnes; Møller, Jørgen; Skaaning, Svend-Erik; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2016)
      The relationship between the strength of civil society and democratic survival in the interwar period has been much debated. Prominent studies have questioned the existence of a positive association, arguing that the ...
    • Clientelism, Public Goods Provision, and Governance 

      Lo Bue, Maria C.; Sen, Kunal; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2021-07)
      It is widely believed that clientelism—the giving of material goods in return for electoral support—is associated with poorer development outcomes. However, systematic cross-country evidence on the deleterious effects of ...
    • Democracy and Corruption: A Global Time-Series Analysis with V-Dem Data 

      McMann, Kelly M.; Seim, Brigitte; Teorell, Jan; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2017)
      Theory predicts democracy should reduce corruption. Yet, numerous scholars have found empirically that corruption decreases at high levels of democracy but actually increases at low levels. A key weaknesses of studies ...
    • Democracy at Dusk? 

      Lührmann, Anna; Lindberg, Staffan I.; Mechkova, Valeriya; Olin, Moa; Piccinelli Casagrande, Francesco; Sanhueza Petrarca, Constanza; Saxer, Laura (2017)
    • Democracy for All? 

      Lührmann, Anna; Dahlum, Sirianne; Lindberg, Staffan I.; Maxwell, Laura; Mechkova, Valeriya; Olin, Moa; Pillai, Shreeya; Sanhueza Petrarca, Constanza; Sigman, Rachel; Stepanova, Natalia (2018)
    • Deterring Dictatorship: Explaining Democratic Resilience since 1900 

      Boese, Vanessa A.; Edgell, Amanda B.; Hellmeier, Sebastian; Maerz, Seraphine F.; Lindberg, Staffan I. (V-Dem Institute, 2020-05)
      Democracy is under threat globally from democratically elected leaders engaging in erosion of media freedom, civil society, and the rule of law. What distinguishes democracies that prevail against the forces of autocratization? ...
    • Economic Development and Democracy: An Electoral Connection 

      Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Gerring, John; Skaaning, Svend-Erik; Teorell, Jan; Maguire, Matthew; Coppedge, Michael; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2015)
      This study takes a new tack on the question of modernization and democracy, focused on the outcome of theoretical interest. We argue that economic development affects the electoral component of democracy but has minimal ...
    • Effective Opposition Strategies: A Foundation for Improved Quality of Government 

      Weghorst, Keith R.; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2010-11)
    • Electoral Democracy and Human Development 

      Gerring, John; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Skanning, Svend-Erik; Teorell, Jan; Coppedge, Michael; Lindberg, Staffan I.; Maguire, Matthew (2015)
      This study attempts to reconcile competing positions in the debate over whether democracy improves human development by showing that some aspects of democracy – but not others – affect human development. Specifically, we ...
    • Establishing Pathways to Democracy Using Domination Analysis 

      Edgell, Amanda B.; Boese, Vanessa A.; Maerz, Seraphine F.; Lindenfors, Patrik; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2020)
      How does the order in which liberalization unfolds a ect the likelihood for a successful democratic transition? Dahl was among the rst to argue that the sequence matters for the outcome when it comes to democratization. ...
    • Experts, Coders, and Crowds: An analysis of substitutability 

      Marquardt, Kyle L.; Pemstein, Daniel; Sanhueza Petrarca, Constanza; Seim, Brigitte; Wilson, Steven Lloyd; Bernhard, Michael; Coppedge, Michael; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2017)
      Recent work suggests that crowd workers can replace experts and trained coders in common coding tasks. However, while many political science applications require coders to both and relevant information and provide judgment, ...
    • Explaining the Homogeneous Diffusion of Covid-19 Policies among Heterogenous Countries 

      Sebhatu, Abiel; Wennberg, Karl; Arora-Jonsson, Stefan; Lindberg, Staffan I. (V-Dem Institute, 2020-08)
      The need for non-pharmaceutical interventions aimed at curtailing the spread of infectious diseases depends crucially on country-specific demographic and public health situations. However, the early stages of the Covid-19 ...
    • Exploring the Impact of Political Regimes on Biodiversity 

      Zizka, Alexander; Rydén, Oskar; Edler, Daniel; Klein, Johannes; Aronsson, Heléne; Perrigo, Allison; Silvestro, Daniele; Jagers, Sverker C.; Lindberg, Staffan I.; Antonelli, Alexandre (2020-03)
      National governments are the main actors responsible for mapping and protecting their biodiversity, but countries differ in their capacity, willingness, and effectiveness to do so. We quantify the global biodiversity managed ...
    • Gender Diversity on High Courts 

      Arrington, Nancy; Bass, Leeann; Glynn, Adam; Staton, Jeffrey K.; Delgado, Brian; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2017)
      Increasing the diversity of political institutions is believed to improve the quality of political discourse and, subsequently, the quality of political outcomes. Moreover, the presence of diverse officials in positions ...
    • Institutional Subsystems and the Survival of Democracy: Do Political and Civil Society Matter? 

      Bernhard, Michael; Hicken, Allen; Reenock, Christopher; Lindberg, Staffan I. (2015)
      How do two central institutional subsystems of democracy – party systems and civil society – affect the persistence of democratic regimes? Despite the ability of each of these institutions to provide sources of countervailing ...