Speakers

Prof Staffan  I. Lindberg
Director, V-Dem Institute

Biography:

Staffan I. Lindberg is Professor of Political Science, Director of the V-Dem Institute at University of Gothenburg, one of six principal investigators for Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem); Wallenberg Academy Fellow, awardee of an ERC Consolidator Grant, selected member Young Academy of Sweden, and member of the Board of University of Gothenburg. He is author of Democracy and Elections in Africa (“Outstanding Academic Title”, Choice 2007) and editor of Democratization by Elections: A New Mode of Transition?, and has also published many articles on egalitarian democracy, sequence analysis methods, civil society, electoral fraud, corruption, women’s representation, political clientelism, voting behaviour and turnovers, party and electoral systems, accountability, democratization, popular attitudes, and the Ghanaian legislature, and executive-legislative relationships. With V-Dem, he was awarded the “Lijphart/Przeworski/ Verba Data Set Award 2016” by the American Political Science Association, Comparative Politics Section.

“The use of V-Dem statistics to measure SDG Goal 16 and other international policy targets”

 V-Dem is the largest ever social science collaboration to measure democracy, human rights, and governance involving over 3,200 scholars and other experts from 180 countries. The resulting some 18 million data, reflecting over 350 variables and over 50 composite indices also draws on cutting-edge Bayesian measurement models to achieve cross-country and temporal comparability. In his talk, Professor Lindberg introduces the V-Dem data resource and demonstrates how it can be used to track and analyse targets under SDG Goal 16 and other international policy targets.