Publications

Peer reviewed

Mechkova, Valeriya, and Steven L. Wilson. "Norms and rage: Gender and social media in the 2018 US mid-term elections." Electoral Studies 69. 2021.

Lührmann, Anna, Kyle L. Marquardt, Valeriya Mechkova. ”Constraining Governments: New Indices of Vertical, Horizontal and Diagonal Accountability”, American Political Science Review. 2020

Mechkova, Valeriya, Carlitz, Ruth. Gendered Accountability: When and Why Do Women's Policy Priorities Get Implemented?.European Political Science Review. 2020

Mechkova, Valeriya, Lührmann, Anna, & 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, Yi-ting, Valeriya Mechkova, and Frida Andersson. "Does Democracy Enhance Health? New Empirical Evidence 1900–2012." Political Research Quarterly. 2018.

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.

Working Papers

Mechkova, Valeriya. "Women Leaders: Exploring the Effects of the Chief Executive Gender on Budget Composition in Comparative Perspective." GLD Working Paper N 46, 2021.

Dahlum, Sirianne, Carl-Henrik Knutsen and Valeriya Mechkova, Female Empowerment and Economic Growth. V-Dem Working Paper No. 46. June 2020

Dahlum, Sirianne, Constanza Petrarca and Valeriya Mechkova, Female Emowerment, Good Governance and Development. Available upon request.

“The Inequality of Fraud. Exploring the Effect of Societal Inequality on Electoral Misconduct.” Presented at V-Dem Conference “Supporting Democracy – How?”, May 2015, Gothenburg.

Datasets

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.