Journal Articles

Peer-reviewed publications by the V-Dem Team

  • Sigman, Rachel. (2021). “Which Jobs for Which Boys? Party Finance and the Politics of State Job Distribution in Africa”. Comparative Political Studies 55(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140211024291
  • Hermansen, Gudmund Horn, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård. (2021). “Characterizing and Assessing Temporal Heterogeneity: Introducing a Change Point Framework, with Applications on the Study of Democratization”. Political Analysis 29(4). https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political-analysis/article/characterizing-and-assessing-temporal-heterogeneity-introducing-a-change-point-framework-with-applications-on-the-study-of-democratization/18E6523636477E755160DBB0EB8E1CCC
    Note: Previous V-Dem Working Paper 93.
  • Gjelow, Haakon, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Tore Wig and Mattew Charles Wilson. (2021). “One Road to Riches? How State Building and Democratization Affect Economic Development”. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/one-road-to-riches/67E7EF36A37E7881168B1E145F78B89F
    Note: Previous V-Dem Working Paper 72.
  • Knutsen, Carl Henrik. (2021). “Autocracy and variation in economic development outcomes”. In G Crawford and A-G Abdulai. [Eds.] Handbook on Democracy and Development. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
    Note: Previous V-Dem Working Paper 80.
  • Gerring, John., Carl Henrik Knutsen, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Matthew Maguire, Jan Teorell, and Michael Coppedge. (2021). “Electoral Democracy and Human Development,” Democratization 28:2: 308-332. 
  • Boese, V. A., Gates, S., Knutsen, C. H., Nygård, H. M., & Strand, H. (Forthcoming). “Patterns of Democracy over Space and Time.” International Studies Quarterly.
    Note: Previous Working Paper 96.
  • Wilson, M.C., Medzihorsky, J., Maerz, S.F., Lührmann, A., Lindenfors, P., Edgell, A.B., Boese, V.A. and Lindberg, S.I.. (Forthcoming). “Episodes of Liberalization in Autocracies: A New Approach to Quantitatively Studying Democratization.” Political Science Research and Methods.
    Note: Previous Working Paper 97.
  • Donno, Daniela, Kelly Morrison, Burcu Savun. (2021). “Not All Elections Are Created Equal: Election Quality and Civil Conflict”. The Journal of Politics, 84(1). https://doi.org/10.1086/714778
  • Altman, David. (2021). ”Adjusting democracy indices to the age of mass migration: voting rights of denizens and expats”. Contemporary Politics, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2021.2008617.
    Note: previous V-Dem Working Paper 106.
  • Altman, David and Clemente T. Sanchez. (2021). “Citizens at the Polls Direct Democracy in the World, 2020.” Taiwan Journal of Democracy, 17(2): 27-48. http://www.tfd.org.tw/export/sites/tfd/files/publication/journal/027-048_David_Altman.pdf
  • Marquardt, Kyle L. (2021). “Language, Ethnicity, and Separatism: Survey Results from Two Post-Soviet Regions”. British Journal of Political Science, 1-21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123421000533
  • Tannenberg, Marcus. (2021). “The autocratic bias: self-censorship of regime support”. Democratization,https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2021.1981867
    Note: previous V-Dem Working Paper 49.
  • Gafuri, Adea. (2021). “Can democracy aid improve democracy? The European Union’s democracy assistance 2002–2018”. Democratization, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2021.2012654
  • Bayerlein, Michael, Vanessa A. Boese, Scott Gates, Katrin Kamin and Syed Mansoob Murshed. (2021). "Populism and COVID-19: How Populist Governments (Mis)Handle the Pandemic", Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy. 2(3), 389-428. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/113.00000043, Online Appendix here.
    Note: Previously V-Dem Working Paper 121.
  • Grahn, Sandra and Anna Luhrmann. (2021). ”Good seed makes a good crop? The relationship between civil society and post-independence democracy levels”. Journal of Civil Society. 17:3-4, 297-322, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17448689.2021.2003139
  • Dupont, Nils, Berker Kavasoglu, Anna Lührmann, Ora John Reuter. (2021). “A global perspective on party organizations. Validating the Varieties of Party Identity and Organization Dataset (V-Party)”. Electoral Studies 75. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2021.102423
    Note: Previously V-Dem Working Paper 124. The Online Supplement and additional material can also be found at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DQCDGP.
  • Kasuya, Yuko & Kota Mori. (2021). “Re-examining thresholds of continuous democracy measures, Contemporary Politics”. Contemporary Politics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2021.1993564
    Note: Previously V-Dem Users’ Working Paper 25.
  • Kavasoglu, Berker. (2021). “Opposition party organizational features, ideological orientations, and elite co-optation in electoral autocracies”. Democratization, DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2021.1994552
    Note: Previously V-Dem Working Paper 120.
  • McMann, Kelly, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim, Jan Teorell and Staffan Lindberg. (2021). “Assessing Data Quality: An Approach and An Application”. Political Analysis: 1-24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2021.27
    Note: Previously V-Dem Working Paper 23.
  • Luhrmann, Anna. (2021). “Disrupting the autocratization sequence: towards democratic resilience”. Democratization 28(5): 1017-1039. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2021.1928080
  • Laebens, Melis G., Anna Luhrmann. (2021). “What halts democratic erosion? The changing role of accountability”. Democratization 28(5): 908-928. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2021.1897109
  • Merkel, Wolfgang, Anna Luhrmann. (2021). “Resilience of democracies: responses to illiberal and authoritarian challenges”. Democratization 28(5): 869-884. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2021.1928081
  • Marquardt, Kyle L., Daniel Pemstein. (2021). “Estimating latent traits from expert surveys: an analysis of sensitivity to data-generating process”. Political Science Research and Methods, 1-10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2021.39
  • Knutsen, Carl Henrik. (2021). “A business case for democracy regime type, growth, and growth volatility”. Democratization,1-20. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2021.1940965
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper 111.
  • Hellmeier, Sebastian, Rowan Cole, Sandra Grahn, Palina Kolvani, Jean Lachapelle, Anna Lührmann, Seraphine F. Maerz, Shreeya Pillai, and Staffan I. Lindberg. (2021). “State of the World 2020: Autocratization Turns Viral.” Democratization 28(6): 1053-1074. Open access: https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2021.1922390 (article draws and extends on the Democracy Report 2021).
  • Boese, Vanessa A., Staffan I. Lindberg, Anna Lührmann. (2021). “Waves of autocratization and democratization: a rejoinder”. Democratization. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2021.1923006
  • Keremoglu, Eda, Sebastian Hellmeier, Nils B. Weidmann. 2021. “Thin-skinned leaders: regime legitimation, protest issues, and repression in autocracies”. Political Science Research and Methods, 1-17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2021.19
  • Edgell, Amanda, Vanessa A. Boese, Patrik Lindenfors, Seraphine F. Maerz, and Staffan I. Lindberg. (2021). “The Institutional Order of Liberalization.” British Journal of Political Science 1-7. Online first, open access: https://doi.org/10.1017/S000712342100020X.
    Note: earlier versions published as V-Dem Working Paper No.79.
  • Arrington, Nancy, Lean Bass, Brian Delgado, Adam Glynn, Jeffrey Staton, and Staffan I. Lindberg. (2021). “Constitutional Reform and the Gender Diversification of Peak Courts.” American Political Science Review 115(3): 851-868. Open access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421000071
    Note: earlier version published as V-Dem Working Paper No.54.
  • Boese, Vanessa A., Amanda B. Edgell, Sebastian Hellmeier, Seraphine F. Maerz, and Staffan I. Lindberg. (2021). “How democracies prevail: Democratic resilience as a two-stage process.” Democratization 28(5): 885-907. Open access: https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2021.1891413
    Note: earlier version published as V-Dem Working Paper No.101.
  • McMann, Kelly M., Brigitte Seim, Daniel Pemstein, Jan Teorell, and Staffan I. Lindberg. forthcoming (2021). “Assessing Data Quality: An Approach and An Application.” Political Analysis.
    Note: earlier version published as V-Dem Working Paper No.23.
  • McMann, Kelly M. Michael Coppedge, John Gerring, Matthew Maquire, and Staffan I. Lindberg. (2021). “Explaining Subnational Regime Variation: Country-Level Factors.” Comparative Politics 53(4): 637-685. https://doi.org/10.5129/001041521X16007785801364
    Note: earlier version published as V-Dem Working Paper Series No.28
  • Boese, Vanessa, Amanda Edgell, Patrik Lindenfors, Anna Lührmann, Seraphine Maerz, Juraj Medzihorsky, and Staffan I. Lindberg. forthcoming. “Episodes of Liberalization in Autocracies: A New Approach to Quantitatively Studying Democratization.” Political Science Research and Methods.
    Note: earlier versions published as V-Dem Working Paper No.97.
  • Vuellers, Johannes, Sebastian Hellmeier. (2021). “Does counter‐mobilization contain right‐wing populist movements? Evidence from Germany”. European Journal of Political Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12439
  • Kavasoglu, Berker. (2021). “Autocratic ruling parties during regime transitions: Investigating the democratizing effect of strong ruling parties”. Party Politics, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068820985280
  • Mechkova, Valeriya, Steven L. Wilson. (2021). “Norms and rage: Gender and social media in the 2018 U.S. mid-term elections”. Electoral Studies, 69: 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2020.102268
  • John Gerring, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Matthew Maguire, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Jan Teorell & Michael Coppedge (2021). “Democracy and human development: issues of conceptualization and measurement,” Democratization, 28:2, 308-332, DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2020.1818721
    Note: earlier V-Dem Working Paper 9.
  • Altman David, Federico Royas-de. Galarreta and Franciso Urdinez. (2021). “An interactive model of democratic peace”. Journal of Peace Research 58(3), 384–398. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343319883672
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper 61

  • Marquardt, Kyle L. (2020). “How and how much does expert error matter? Implications for quantitative peace research”. Journal of Peace Research, 57(6) 692–700. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343320959121
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper 84
  • Szu-Ning Ping, Yi-Ting Wang, Wen-Yang Chang. (2020). “The Effects of China’s Development Projects on Political Accountability”. British Journal of Political Science, 1-20. 10.1017/S0007123420000381
  • Tannenberg, Marcus, Michael Bernhard, Johannes Gerschewski, Anna Luhrmann, Christian von Soest. (2020). “Claiming the right to rule: regime legitimation strategies from 1900 to 2019”. European Political Science Regiew, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755773920000363
  • Fjelde, Hanne. Carl Henrik Knutsen, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård. (2020). ” Which Institutions Matter? Reconsidering the Democratic Civil Peace”. International Studies Quarterly: 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqaa076
  • Wilson, Steven Lloyd, Charles Wiysonge. (2020). “Social media and vaccine hesitancy”. BMJ Global Health, 5(10). https://doi.org/10.1136/ bmjgh-2020-004206
  • Lindenfors, Patrik, Matthew Wilson, and Staffan Lindberg. (2020)."The Matthew Effect in Political Science: Head Start and Key Reforms Important for Democratization". Humanities and Social Science Communications 7(106). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00596-7
  • Wilson, Matthew C., Carl Henrik Knutsen. (2020). “Geographical Coverage in Political Science Research”. Cambridge University Press: 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592720002509
  • Dahlum, Sirianne, Tore Wig. (2020). “Peace Above the Glass Ceiling: The Historical Relationship between Female Political Empowerment and Civil Conflict.” International Studies Quarterly, squaa066 00: 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqaa066
  • Lachapelle, Jean, Steven Levitsky, lucan A. Way and Adam E. Casey. (2020). “Social Revolution and Authoritarian Durability.” World Politics 1-44. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0043887120000106
  • Altman, David. (2020). “Checking Executive Personalism: Collegial Governments and the Level of Democracy.” Swiss Political Science Review. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/spsr.12406
  • Altman, David, Federico Rojas, Francisco Urdinez. (2020). “An Interactive Model of Democratic Peace.” Journal of Peace Research XX(X):1-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343319883672
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper 61.
  • Bernhard, Michael. (2020). “What do we know about civil society and regime change thirty years after 1989?” East European Politics 36(3): 341-362. https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2020.1787160
  • Gerring, John, Tore Wig, Wouter Veenendaal, Daniel Weitzel, Jan Teorell, Kyosuke Kikuta. (2020). “Why Monarchy? The Rise and Demise of a Regime Type.” Comparative Political Studies (forthcoming).
  • Lleshi, Sokhol. (2020). “Reconstructing the past in a state-mandated historical memory institute: the case of Albania.” European Politics and Society, 21(3): 277-291. https://doi.org/10.1080/23745118.2019.1645420
  • Lindenfors, Patrik, Matthew Wilson, Staffan I. Lindberg. (forthcoming). ”The Matthew Effect in Political Science: Head Start and Key Reforms Important for Democratization”. Palgrave Communications.
  • Steele, A. Carie, Daniel Pemstein, Stephen A. Meserve. (2020). “Democracy promotion and electoral quality: A disaggregated analysis”. Governance: 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12526
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper 107.
  • Sebhatu, Abiel, Karl Wennberg, Stefan Arora-Jonsson, Staffan I. Lindberg. (2020). “Explaining the homogeneous diffusion of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions across heterogeneous countries”. PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (Impact Factor 2020: 9.412). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2010625117
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper 104.
  • Lindberg, Staffan I. and Juraj Medzihorsky. (2020). “Data for Politics: Creating an International Research Infrastructure Measuring Democracy”. Cell: Patterns 1(4). Online first https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2020.100056
  • Mechkova, Valeriya and Ruth Carlitz. (2020). “Gendered accountability: when and why do women’s policy priorities get implemented?”. European Political Science Review, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755773920000272
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper 88.
  • Gafuri, Adea, Meltem Muftuler-Bac. (2020). ”Caught between stability and democracy in the Western Balkans: a comparative analysis of paths of accession to the European Union”. East European Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2020.1781094
  • Popovic, Milos, Erin K. Jenne and Juraj Medzihorsky. (2020). ”Charm Offensive or Offensive Charm? An Analysis of Russian and Chinese Cultural Institutes Abroad”. Europe-Asia Studies: 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2020.1785397
  • Hellmeier, Sebastian. (2020). “How foreign pressure affects mass mobilization in favor of authoritarian regimes”. European Journal of International Relations 00(0): 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1354066120934527
  • Lachapelle, Jean. (2020). “No Easy Way Out: The Effect of Military Coups on State Repression”. The Journal of Politics 82 (4). https://doi.org/10.1086/707309
  • Kelly McMann, Michael Coppedge, John Gerring, Matthew Maquire, and Staffan I. Lindberg’s. (2020). “Explaining Subnational Regime Variation: Country-Level Factors”. Comparative Politics, forthcoming. Online 2020, in print 2021.
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper 28
  • Lührmann, Anna, Kyle Marquardt and Valeriya Mechkova. (2020). ”Constraining Governments: New Indices of Vertical, Horizontal, and Diagonal Accountability”. American Political Science Review 114(3): 811-820. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055420000222
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper 46
  • Bernhard, Michael, Amanda Edgell, and Staffan I. Lindberg. 2020. “Institutionalizing Electoral Uncertainty and Authoritarian Regime Survival”. European Journal of Political Research 59(2): 465-482. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12355
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper 37
  • Maerz, Seraphine, Lührmann, Anna, Sandra Grahn, Sebastian Hellmeier, and Staffan I. Lindberg. 2020. ”State of the World 2019: Autocratization Surges, Resistance Grows”. Feature article, Democratization, 27. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2020.1758670
  • Lührmann, Anna and Bryan Rooney. Forthcoming. ”Autocratization by Decree: States of Emergency and Democratic Decline”. Comparative Politics.
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper 85
  • Cornell, Agnes, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Jan Teorell. (2020). ”Bureaucracy and Growth”. Comparative Political Studies 53(14): 1-37. Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414020912262
  • Grundholm, Alexander Taaning. March (2020). “Taking it personal? Investigating regime personalization as an autocratic survival strategy”. Democratization. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2020.1737677
  • Leroi, M. Armand, Ben Lambert, Matthias Mauch, Marina Papadopoulou, Sophia Ananiadou, Staffan I. Lindberg & Patrik Lindenfors. (2020). ”On Revolutions”. Palgrave Communications 6(4): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0371-1
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 63.
  • Maerz, F, Seraphine. (2020). “The Many Faces of Authoritarian Persistence: A Set-Theory Perspective on the Survival Strategies of Authoritarian Regimes”. Government and Opposition, 55: 64-87. https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2018.17
  • Hellmeier, Sebastian, Nils B. Weidmann. (2020). “Pulling the Strings? The Strategic Use of Pro-Government Mobilization in Authoritarian Regimes”. Comparative Political Studies 53 (1): 71-108. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414019843559 (first published 24 April 2019).
  • McMann, M. Kelly, Brigitte Seim, Jan Teorell, Staffan I. Lindberg. (2020). “Why Low Levels of Democracy Promote Corruption and High Levels Diminish It”. Political Research Quarterly. (First Published July 17, 2019).https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912919862054
    Note: V-Dem Working Papers Series No. 43.

  • Knutsen, Carl Henrik, Jan Teorell, Tore Wig, Agnes Cornell, John Gerring, Haakon Gjerlow, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Daniel Ziblatt, Kyle L Marquardt, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim. (2019). “Introducing the Historical Varieties of Democracy Dataset: Political Institutions in the Long 19th Century.” Journal of Peace Research 56(3) in 2019: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022343318823866
    Note: Previous V-Dem Working Paper 65.
  • Dahlum, Sirianne, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Tore Wig. (2019). “Who Revolts? Empirically Revisiting the Social Origins of Democracy”. The Journal of Politics 81 (4). https://doi.org/10.1086/704699
  • Tiago Fernandes, João Cancela, Edalina Rodrigues Sanches, and José Santana-Pereira, Democracy, Institutions and Political Culture: Southern Europe, 1970s-2010s, Lisbon, Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation, 2019 (published under FFMS’s peer-reviewed new social sciences collection).
  • Matthew Wilson and Josef Woldense. (2019). “Contested or Established? A Comparison of Legislative Powers Across Regimes”. Democratization. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2018.1564282
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper 82
  • Bernhard, Michael, Allen Hicken, Christopher Reenock, and Staffan I. Lindberg. (2019). “Parties, Civil Society, and the Deterrence of Democratic Defection”. Studies in Comparative International Development 55, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-019-09295-0
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 4.
  • Djuve, Lunnan. Vilde, Knutsen, Carl Henrik, Wig, Tore. (2019). ”Patterns of Regime Breakdown Since the French Revolution”. Comparative Political Studies 53(6): 923-958. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0010414019879953
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 69.
  • Marquardt, L. Kyle, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim, Yi-ting Wang. (2019). “What makes experts reliable? Expert reliability and the estimation of latent traits”. Research and Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168019879561
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 68.
  • Povitkina, Marina, and Ketevan Bolkvadze. Forthcoming. “Fresh Pipes with Dirty Water: How Quality of Government Shapes the Provision of Public Goods in Democracies”. European Journal of Political Research. 
    Note: V-Dem Working Papers Series No. 62.
  • Sigman, Rachel & Staffan I. Lindberg. Forthcoming. ”Neopatrimonialism and Democracy: An Empirical Investigation of Africa’s Political Regimes”. in Von Doepp, Peter and Gabrielle Lynch (eds.) Handbook of Democratization in Africa, London: Routledge.
    Note: V-Dem Working Papers Series No. 56.
  • Hummel, Calla, John Gerring, and Thomas Burt. (2019). "Do Political Finance Reforms Reduce Corruption?". The British Journal of Political Science: 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123419000358
  • Bernhard, Michael, Amanda B. Edgell, Staffan I. Lindberg. (2019). “Institutionalising electoral uncertainty and authoritarian regime survival”. European Journal of Political Research.https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12355 (first published 19 September 2019)
    Note: V-Dem Working Papers Series No. 37.
  • Robinson, Darrel, Marcus Tannenberg. (2019). “Self-censorship of regime support in authoritarian states: Evidence from list experiments in China”. Research and Politics. (First Published July 12, 2019) https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168019856449
    Note: V-Dem Working Papers Series No. 66.
  • Maerz, Seraphine. 2019. “Simulating Pluralism: The Language of Democracy in Hegemonic Authoritarianism”. Political Research Exchange. (Published online: 25 Jul 2019) https://doi.org/10.1080/2474736X.2019.1605834
  • Coppedge, Michael, John Gerring, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Joshua Krusell, Juraj Medzhihorsky, Josefine Pernes, Svend-Erik Saaning, Natalia Stepanova, Jan Teorell, Eitan Tzelgov, Steven L. Wilson, Staffan I. Lindberg. (2019). “The Methodology of “Varieties of Democracy” (V-Dem)”. Bulletin of Sociological Methodlogy /Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, Volume 143, Issue 1. (First Published July 18, 2019) https://doi.org/10.1177/0759106319854989
  • Wilson, Matthew Charles. (2019). “A Closer Look at the Limits of Consociationalism”. Comparative Political Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414019858956 (first published 16 July 2019)
  • Medzihorsky, Juraj. 2019. “Rethinking the D'Hondt Method”. Political Research Exchange. https://doi.org/10.1080/2474736X.2019.1625712 (published online: 25 Jul 2019)
  • van Ham, Carolien, Staffan Lindberg. (2019). “Reconsidering African Elections”. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.861 (published online June 2019)
  • Rydén, Oskar, Alexander Zizka, Sverker C. Jagers, Staffan I. Lindberg, Alexandre Antonelli. (2019). “Linking Democracy and Biodiversity Conservation: Empirical Evidence and Research Gaps”. Ambio 49: 419-433. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01210-0
  • van Ham, Carolien, Holly Ann Garnett. (2019). ”Building Impartial Electoral Management? Institutional Design, Independence and Electoral Integrity”. International Political Science Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512119834573 (first published 22 April 2019)
  • Hegre, Håvard, Michael Bernhard, and Jan Teorell. (2019). “Civil Society and the Democratic Peace”. Journal of Conflict Resolution. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002719850620 (first published 30 May 2019)
    Note: V-Dem Working Papers Series No. 64.
  • Lührmann, Anna, Sandra Grahn, Richard Morgan, Shreeya Pillai & Staffan I. Lindberg. (2019). ”State of the world 2018: democracy facing global challenges”. Democratization, 26(6): 895-915. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2019.1613980
  • Gjerlow, Haakon, Carl Henrik Knutsen. (2019). “Leaders, Private Interests, and Socially Wasteful Projects: Skyscrapers in Democracies and Autocracies”. Political Research Quarterly, 72(2): 504-520. https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912919840710(published online: 04 April 2019)
    Note: V-Dem Working Papers Series No. 44.
  • Lührmann, Anna, Staffan I. Lindberg. (2019). “A Third Wave of Autocratization is Here: What is New About It?”. Democratization. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2019.1582029 (published online: 01 March 2019)
    Note: V-Dem Working Papers Series No. 75; Frank Cass 2019 Award winner (selected 15 April 2020).
  • Teorell, Jan, and Staffan I. Lindberg. (2019). “Beyond Democracy-Dictatorship Measures: A New Framework Capturing Executive Bases of Power, 1789-2016”. Perspectives on Politics 17(1):66-84. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592718002098(accepted 2018-03- 21, published online 2019-02-13) V-Dem Working Papers Series No. 5.
  • Lindenfors, Patrik, Joshua Krusell, and Staffan I. Lindberg. (2019). “Sequential Requisites Analysis: A New Method for Analyzing Sequential Relationships in Ordinal Data”. Social Science Quarterly. Published: 4 February 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12588
    Note: V-Dem Working Papers Series No. 33.
  • Wilson, Matthew Charles, Josef Woldense. (2019). “Contested or Established? A Comparison of Legislative Powers Across Regimes”. Democratization 26 (4): 585-605. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2018.1564282 (published online: 21 Jan 2019)
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 82.
  • Teorell, Jan, Michael Coppedge, Svend-Erik Skaaning, and Staffan Lindberg. (2019). "Measuring Polyarchy Across the Globe 1900-2017". Studies in Comparative International Development, 54(1): 71-95.https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-018-9268-z (first online 09 July 2018)
    Note: V-Dem Working Papers Series No. 25.
  • Mechkova, Valeriya, Anna Lührmann, and Staffan I. Lindberg. (2019). "The Accountability Sequence: From De-jure to De-facto Constraints on Governments". Studies in Comparative International Development 54(1): 40-70. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-018-9262-5 (published: 25 May 2018)
    Note: V-Dem Working Papers Series No. 58

  • Bizzarro, Fernando, John Gerring, Carl-Henrik Knutsen, Allen Hicken, Michael, Bernhard, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Michael Coppedge, and Staffan I. Lindberg. (2018). “Party Strength and Economic Growth”. World Politics 70(2): 275-320 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0043887117000375 (published online: 06 March 2018)
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 10 Edited. September 2015
  • Lührmann, Anna. (2018). “United Nations’ Electoral Assistance: More than a Fig Leaf?”. International Political Science Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512117740915
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 27(2) revised. June 2016
  • McMann, Kelly M. (2018). “Measuring Subnational Democracy: Toward Improved Regime Typologies and Theories of Regime Change”. Democratization, 25(1): 19-37. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2017.1307822 (published online: 10 April 2017)
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 26. March 2016
  • Lindenfors, Patrik, Fredrik Jansson, Yi-ting Wang, and Staffan I. Lindberg. (2018). “Investigating Sequences in Ordinal Data: A New Approach with Adapted Evolutionary Models”. Political Science Research and Methods, 6(3): 449-466. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2018.9 (published online: 05 March 2018)
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 18. December 2015
  • Blackwell, Matthew, Adam N. Glynn. (2018). “How to Make Causal Inferences with Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data under Selection on Observables”. American Political Science Review. 112(4), 1067-1082. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055418000357
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 67. 2018. FASDEM publication.
  • Wang, Yi-ting, Valeriya Mechkova, and Frida Andersson. (2018). “Does Democracy Enhance Health? New Empirical Evidence 1900-2012”. Political Research Quarterly, 72(3): 554-569. https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912918798506 (first published 07 September 2018; Issue published: 01 September 2019)
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 11. 2015
  • Marquardt, Kyle L., and Daniel Pemstein. (2018). “IRT models for expert-coded panel data”. Political Analysis, 1-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pan.2018.28 (Published online 3 September 2018)
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 41.
  • Stockemer, Daniel, and Aksel Sundström. (2018). ”Corruption and women in cabinets: Informal barriers to recruitment in the executive”. Governance 32 (1): 83-102. https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12352
  • Lührmann, Anna, Valeriya Mechkova, Sirianne Dahlum, Laura Maxwell, Moa Olin, Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca, Rachel Sigman, Matthew C. Wilson & Staffan I. Lindberg. (2018). “State of the world 2017: autocratization and exclusion?”. Democratization 25 (8): 1321-1340. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2018.1479693
  • Gerring, John, Matthew Maguire, Jillian Jaeger. (2018). “A General Theory of Power Concentration: Demographic Influences on Political Organization”. European Political Science Review.
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 29. May 2016. https://doi.org/10.1017/S175577391800005X (published online: 01 June 2018)
  • Knutsen, Carl Henrik, John Gerring, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Jan Teorell, Matthew Maguire, Michael Coppedge, and Staffan I. Lindberg. (2018). “Economic Development and Democracy: An Electoral Connection”. European Journal of Political Research(Impact Factor: 2.891, ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2016: 13/165 Political Science). https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12282 (published online: 27 April 2018)
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 16(2) Revised. June 2016
  • Sigman, Rachel, and Staffan I. Lindberg. (2018). “Democracy for All: Conceptualizing and Measuring Egalitarian Democracy”. Political Science Research and Methods. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2018.6 (published online: 18 April 2018)
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 22. December 2015
  • Lührmann, Anna, Marcus Tannerberg, and Staffan I. Lindberg. (2018). "Regimes of the World (RoW): Opening New Avenues for the Comparative Study of Political Regimes". Politics and Governance 6(1): 60-77. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/pag.v6i1.1214
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 47. May 2017
  • Lueders, Hans, and Ellen Lust. (2018). “Multiple Measurements, Elusive Agreement, and Unstable Outcomes in the Study of Regime Change”. Journal of Politics 8(2): 736-741. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/696864
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 52. September 2017
  • Lægreid, Ole Martin, and Marina Povitkina. (2018). “Do Political Institutions Moderate the GDP-CO2 Relationship?”. Ecological Economics 145: 441-450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.11.014
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 59. December 2017

  • Altman, David. (2017). “The Potential of Direct Democracy: A Global Measure (1900-2014)”. Social Indicators Research 133 (3): 1207–27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-016-1408-0
  • Ahlbom, Tove, and Marina Povitkina. (2017). “‘Gimme Shelter’: The Role of Democracy and Institutional Quality in Disaster Preparedness”. Political Research Quarterly 70(4): 833-847. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1065912917716335
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 35. August 2016
  • Mechkova, Valeriya, Anna Lührmann, and Staffan I. Lindberg. (2017). “How Much Democratic Backsliding?”. Journal of Democracy28(4): 162-169. http://doi.org/10.1353/jod.2017.0075
  • Kerr, Nicholas, and Anna Lührmann. (2017). “Public trust in manipulated elections: The role of election administration and media freedom”. Electoral Studies 50: 50-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2017.08.003
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 36. September 2016
  • Edgell, Amanda B., Valeriya Mechkova, David Altman, Michael Bernhard, and Staffan I. Lindberg. (2017). “When and where do elections matter? A global test of the democratization by elections, 1900-2010”. Democratization 25(3): 422-444. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2017.1369964
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 8. August 2015
  • van Ham, Carolien, and Brigitte Seim. (2017). “Strong States, Weak Elections? How State Capacity in Authoritarian Regimes Conditions the Democratizing Power of Elections”. International Political Science Review, 39(1): 49-66. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0192512117697544
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 51. June 2017
  • Bernhard, Michael, Dong-Joon Jung, Eitan Tzelgov, Michael Coppedge, and Staffan I. Lindberg. (2017). “Making Embedded Knowledge Transparent: How the V-Dem Dataset Opens New Vistas in Civil Society Research”. Perspectives on Politics15(2): 342-360. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592717000056
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 13. Edited. December 2015
  • Bizzarro, Fernando, and Michael Coppedge. (2017). “Variedades da Democracia no Brasil”. Opinião Pública 23(1): 1-42.https://doi.org/10.1590/1807-019120172311
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 14. November 2015
  • Bernhard, Michael. (2017). “Introduction: Forum on Democratic Deterioration in Central Europe”. European Politics and Society: 3-13.
  • Wang, Yi-ting, Patrik Lindenfors, Aksel Sundström, Fredrik Jansson, Pamela Paxton, and Staffan I. Lindberg. 2017. “Women's rights in democratic transitions: A global sequence analysis, 1900–2012”. European Journal of Political Research 56(4): 735-756. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12201
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 12. September 2015
  • Sundström, Aksel, Pamela P. Paxton, Yi-ting Wang, and Staffan I. Lindberg. (2017). “Women’s political empowerment: A new global index, 1900-2012”. World Development 94: 321–335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.01.016
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 19. December 2015
  • Altman, David. (2017). “The Potential of Direct Democracy: A Global Measure (1900-2014)”. Social Indicators Research 133(3): 1207-1227. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-016-1408-0
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 17. December 2015
  • Bernhard, Michael, Ömer Faruk Örsün, and Reşat Bayer. (2017). “Democratization in Conflict Studies: How Conceptualization Affects Operationalization and Testing Outcomes”. International Interactions 43(6): 941-966. https://doi.org/10.1080/03050629.2017.1257489
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 31. June 2016

  • Knutsen, Carl Henrik, Jørgen Møller, and Svend-Erik Skaaning. (2016). “Going Historical: Measuring Democraticness before the Age of Mass Democracy”. International Political Science Review 37(5): 679-689. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0192512115618532
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 38. November 2016
  • Lindberg, Staffan I. (2016). “Ordinal Versions of V-Dem’s Indices: When Interval Measures Are Not Useful for Classification, Description, and Sequencing Analysis Purposes”. Geopolitics, History, and International Relations 8(2): 76–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.22381/GHIR8220165
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 20. December 2015
  • Coppedge, Michael, Staffan I. Lindberg, Svend-Erik Skaaning, and Jan Teorell. (2016). “Measuring High Level Democratic Principles Using the V-Dem Data”. International Political Science Review 37(5): 580-593. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0192512115622046
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 6. May 2015
  • van Ham, Carolien, and Staffan I. Lindberg. (2015). “When guardians matter most. Exploring the conditions under which EMB institutional design affects election integrity”. Irish Political Studies 30(4): 454-481. https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2015.1099097
  • van Ham, Carolien, and Staffan I. Lindberg. (2015). “From Sticks to Carrots: Electoral Manipulation in Africa, 1986–2012”. Government and Opposition 50(2): 521-548. Impact Factor 0.875 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2015.6
    Note: V-Dem Working Paper No. 3. April 2015
  • Lindberg, Staffan I., Michael Coppedge, John Gerring, and Jan Teorell. (2014). “V-Dem: A New Way to Measure Democracy”. Journal of Democracy 25(3): 159-169. Impact factor 1.353 (5 year average 2008-2012). https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.2014.0040
  • Coppedge, Michael, John Gerring, and Staffan I. Lindberg. (2012). “Variedades de Democracia: Un enfoque histórico, multidimensional y desagregado“. Revista Española de Ciencia Política 30: 97-109. Available at https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/recp/article/view/37563
  • Coppedge, Michael, and John Gerring, with David Altman, Michael Bernhard, Steven Fish, Allen Hicken, Matthew Kroenig, Staffan I. Lindberg, Kelly McMann, Pamela Paxton, Holli A. Semetko, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Jeffrey Staton, and Jan Teorell. (2011). “Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: A New Approach”. Perspectives on Politics 9(2): 247-67.https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592711000880