Publications

Mechkova, V., & Wilson, S. (2019). Does Gender Still Matter for Politics? The Case of the 2018 U.S. Elections on Twitter. Digital Society Project Working Paper, 2.

Mechkova, V., & Carlitz, R. (2019). Gendered Accountability: When and Why Do Women's Policy Priorities Get Implemented?. V-Dem Working Paper, 88.

Mechkova, V., Pemstein, D., Wilson, S. Seim, B. (2019). Measuring Internet Politics: Introducing the Digital Society Project (DSP). Digital Society Project Working Paper, 1.

Lührmann, A., Marquardt, K. L., & Mechkova, V. (2017). Constraining governments: New indices of vertical, horizontal and diagonal accountability. V-Dem Working Paper, 46.

Mechkova, V., Lührmann, A., & Lindberg, S. I. (2019). The Accountability Sequence: From De-jure to De-facto Constraints on Governments. Studies in Comparative International Development, 54(1), 40-70.

Wang, Y. T., Mechkova, V., & Andersson, F. (2018). Does Democracy Enhance Health? New Empirical Evidence 1900–2012. Political Research Quarterly, 1065912918798506. 

Lührmann, A., Mechkova, V., Dahlum, S., Maxwell, L., Olin, M., Petrarca, C. S., ... & Lindberg, S. I. (2018). State of the world 2017: autocratization and exclusion?. Democratization, 25(8), 1321-1340.

Edgell, A. B., Mechkova, V., Altman, D., Bernhard, M., & Lindberg, S. I. (2018). When and where do elections matter? A global test of the democratization by elections hypothesis, 1900–2010. Democratization, 25(3), 422-444.

Mechkova, V., Lührmann, A., & Lindberg, S. I. (2017). How much democratic backsliding?. Journal of Democracy, 28(4), 162-169.

Coppedge, M., J. Gerring, C. H. Knutsen, S. Lindberg, S. E. Skaaning, J.

Teorell, D. Altman, M. Bernhard, M. S. Fish, A. Cornell, S. Dahlum, H.

Gjerløw, A. Glynn, A. Hicken, J. Krusell, A. Lührmann, K. Marquardt, K.

McMann, V. Mechkova, J. Medzihorsky, M. Olin, P. Paxton, D. Pemstein, J.

Pernes, J. von Römer, B. Seim, R. Sigman, J. Staton, N. Stepanova, A.

Sundström, E. Tzelgov, Y. Wang, T. Wig, S. Wilson, and D. Ziblatt. 2018. VDem

Dataset v8. Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project.

• Winner of APSA-CP’s 2016 Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Dataset Award (for

v6).

Mechkova, V., D. Pemstein, B. Seim, and S. Wilson. Digital Society Project

Dataset v1, 2019.