| How democracies prevail: democratic resilience as a two-stage process VA Boese, AB Edgell, S Hellmeier, SF Maerz, SI Lindberg Democratization 28 (5), 885-907, 2021 | 141* | 2021 |
| Pandemic backsliding: Violations of democratic standards during Covid-19 AB Edgell, J Lachapelle, A Lührmann, SF Maerz Social Science & Medicine 285, 114244, 2021 | 139* | 2021 |
| When and where do elections matter? A global test of the democratization by elections hypothesis, 1900–2010 AB Edgell, V Mechkova, D Altman, M Bernhard, SI Lindberg Democratization 25 (3), 422-444, 2018 | 70 | 2018 |
| Foreign aid, democracy, and gender quota laws AB Edgell Democratization 24 (6), 1103-1141, 2017 | 59 | 2017 |
| Institutionalising electoral uncertainty and authoritarian regime survival M Bernhard, A B. EDGELL, SI Lindberg European Journal of Political Research 59 (2), 465-487, 2020 | 55 | 2020 |
| Pandemic backsliding: Does Covid-19 put democracy at risk A Lührmann, AB Edgell, SF Maerz V-Dem Policy Brief 23, 1-4, 2020 | 53 | 2020 |
| Episodes of regime transformation SF Maerz, AB Edgell, MC Wilson, S Hellmeier, SI Lindberg Journal of Peace Research, 00223433231168192, 2023 | 51* | 2023 |
| Pandemic backsliding: Democracy nine months into the Covid-19 pandemic P Kolvani, S Pillai, AB Edgell, S Grahn, S Kaiser, J Lachapelle, ... V-Dem Policy Brief 26, 1-6, 2020 | 42* | 2020 |
| Pandemic Backsliding: Democracy During COVID-19 (PanDem), Version 5 A Edgell, A Lührmann, SF Maerz, J Lachapelle, S Grahn, AFG God, ... Available at: www. v-dem. net/en/ourwork/research-projects/pandemic-backsliding, 2020 | 34* | 2020 |
| An update on pandemic backsliding: democracy four months after the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic AB Edgell, S Grahn, J Lachapelle, A Lührmann, SF Maerz Policy Brief 24, 1-6, 2020 | 22 | 2020 |
| Successful and failed episodes of democratization: Conceptualization, identification, and description MC Wilson, RK Morgan, J Medzihorsky, L Maxwell, SF Maerz, ... V-Dem Working Paper 97, 2020 | 22* | 2020 |
| Democratic legacies: using democratic stock to assess norms, growth, and regime trajectories AB Edgell, MC Wilson, VA Boese, S Grahn V-Dem Working Paper 100, 2020 | 21 | 2020 |
| Why democracies develop and decline M Coppedge, AB Edgell, CH Knutsen, SI Lindberg Cambridge University Press, 2022 | 19 | 2022 |
| Does the Coronavirus endanger democracy in Europe A Lührmann, AB Edgell, S Grahn, J Lachapelle, SF Maerz Carnegie Europe, 2020 | 18 | 2020 |
| Vying for a man seat: gender quotas and sustainable representation in Africa AB Edgell African Studies Review 61 (1), 185-214, 2018 | 18 | 2018 |
| Episodes of Regime Transformation Dataset (v13) AB Edgell, SF Maerz, L Maxwell, R Morgan, J Medzihorsky, MC Wilson, ... Varieties of Democracy, 2020 | 14 | 2020 |
| Episodes of liberalization in autocracies: a new approach to quantitatively studying democratization MC Wilson, J Medzihorsky, SF Maerz, P Lindenfors, AB Edgell, VA Boese, ... Political science research and methods 11 (3), 501-520, 2023 | 12 | 2023 |
| Conceptual and measurement issues in assessing democratic backsliding CH Knutsen, KL Marquardt, B Seim, M Coppedge, AB Edgell, ... PS: Political Science & Politics, 1-16, 2023 | 12 | 2023 |
| Pandemic Backsliding: A Year of Violations and Advances in Response to Covid-19 P Kolvani, M Lundstedt, AB Edgell, J Lachapelle V-Dem Policy Brief, 2021 | 12* | 2021 |
| The institutional order of liberalization AB Edgell, VA Boese, SF Maerz, P Lindenfors, SI Lindberg British Journal of Political Science 52 (3), 1465-1471, 2022 | 9* | 2022 |
