Staffan I. Lindberg
Staffan I. Lindberg is a Ph.D. (2004) from Lund University, Sweden. His dissertation won the American Political Science Association's Juan Linz Award for best dissertation 2005. Professor Lindberg holds a joint position at the Department of Political Science and the Center for African Studies. He taught at Kent State University, spent two years in Ghana as parliamentary advisor, and consults on a regular basis for donors in Africa. He has published on state building, women's legislative empowerment, effects of electoral systems, opposition parties, party systems and elections based on his cross-national research. His book, Democracy and Elections in Africa (Johns Hopkins UP, 2006) demonstrates the positive causal effect of elections on the spread of democracy. 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.
