Democracy researcher rewarded by the Royal Vitterhetsakademin

Every year, the Royal Vitterhetsakademin rewards outstanding researchers and teachers for contributing to the humanities and social sciences. Political scientist Staffan I. Lindberg is one of the 2023 prize winners. He is awarded the Rettig Prize for:

"his ground-breaking progress in democracy research, partly through theoretical development of various models of democracy, partly by creating operational measures for theoretical concepts and then constructing an infrastructure to measure democracy over time and space."

Staffan I. Lindberg is a professor of political science and heads the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg.

The Rettig Prize is the Royal Vitterhetsakademien's oldest prize and was awarded for the first time in 1956. It was instituted as part of the Rettig donation so that income from the Rettig Cultural Foundation investments could be distributed in the form of a prize. The prize is awarded to an outstanding researcher in the Academy’s fields of interest. The right to nominate the winner formerly alternated between the Academy’s ‘classes’ — its history and antiquarianism class and its philosophy and philology class — but as of 2018 both types have awarded a SEK 250,000 prize annually.