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Valeriya Mechkova
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Presentation
Assistant Professor (Biträdande Universitetslektor) at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. My main research interests concern democracy and political representation. I aim to understand how representation and accountability can be used to change the life of ordinary people. More recently, I have also engaged with questions at the intersection between Internet and politics.
I am part of the project "Public Services in Comparative and Historical Perspective", and I often collaborate with researchers from the V-Dem Institute. In January 2022, I defended my PhD dissertation titled "Understanding the Conditions and Consequences of Women's Political Representation". In my dissertation I study whether and under what conditions women's political representation transforms politics, particularly focusing on development outcomes such as economic growth, infant and maternal mortality.
Currently, I am working on a project studying the extent to which descriptive representation of women leads to their substantive representation using historical evidence from Sweden. In particular, I focus on how women’s presence in municipal councils in the early days of democracy (1920s-30s) shaped the development of the Swedish welfare system, in particular when it comes to implementing women’s priorities. With Johannes Lindvall, I alsto study the suffrage movement in Sweden, how it is connected to the development of female-dominated professions, and its subsequent effects on the welfare state.
I am co-PI of the Digital Society Project (DSP), which aims to answer some of the most important questions surrounding interactions between the internet and politics. Right now I am working on a project that uses Twitter data across nine countries to analyse political candidates behaviour online.
In terms of technical skills, I specialize in time-series cross-sectional data analysis.
I also work part-time with the policy and outreach program of the V-Dem Institute. I have worked as consultant for USAID, the World Bank, Community of Democracies, and International IDEA.
Previously I worked as V-Dem’s analyst and data operations manager, starting from May 2013 until August 2016.
Education
Master’s degree in International Administration and Global Governance, University of Gothenburg, 2014.
Bachelor’s degree in International Relations, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, 2012.
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Measuring online political activity: introducing the digital society project
dataset
Valeriya Mechkova, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim, Steven. L. Wilson
JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & POLITICS - 2024 -
Women's political representation, good governance and human
development
Valeriya Mechkova, S. Dahlum, C. S. Petrarca
Governance - 2024 -
Substantive Representation, Women’s Health, and Regime
Type
Valeriya Mechkova, Amanda B. Edgell
Comparative Political Studies - 2023 -
Understanding the Conditions and Consequences of Women’s Political
Representation
Valeriya Mechkova
2022 -
Women's political empowerment and economic
growth
Sirianne Dahlum, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Valeriya Mechkova
World Development - 2022 -
Gendered Accountability: When and Why Do Women's Policy Priorities Get
Implemented?
Valeriya Mechkova, Ruth Carlitz
European Political Science Review - 2021 -
Norms and rage: Gender and social media in the 2018 U.S. mid-term
elections
Valeriya Mechkova, Steven Wilson
Electoral Studies - 2021 -
Constraining Governments: New Indices of Vertical, Horizontal, and Diagonal
Accountability
Anna Lührmann, K. L. Marquardt, Valeriya Mechkova
American Political Science Review - 2020 -
Female Empowerment and Economic
Growth
Sirianne Dahlum, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Valeriya Mechkova
2020 -
Introducing the Digital Society
Project
Valeriya Mechkova, Steven Wilson, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Zimmerman
2019 -
The Accountability Sequence: from De-Jure to De-Facto Constraints on
Governments
Valeriya Mechkova, Anna Lührmann, Staffan I. Lindberg
Studies in Comparative International Development - 2019 -
Does Democracy Enhance Health? New Empirical Evidence
1900–2012
Yi-Ting Wang, Valeriya Mechkova, Frida Andersson
Political research quarterly - 2019 -
Does Gender Still Matter for Politics? The Case of the 2018 U.S. Elections on
Twitter
Valeriya Mechkova, Steven Wilson
2019 -
State of the world 2017: autocratization and
exclusion?
Anna Lührmann, Valeriya Mechkova, Sirianne Dahlum, Laura Maxwell, Moa Olin, Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca, Rachel Sigman, Matthew C. Wilson, Staffan I Lindberg
Democratization - 2018 -
Democracy for
All?
Anna Lührmann, Sirianne Dahlum, Staffan I Lindberg, Laura Maxwell, Valeriya Mechkova, Moa Olin, Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca, Shreeya Pillai, Rachel Sigman, Natalia Stepanova
2018 -
When and where do elections matter? A global test of the democratization by elections hypothesis,
1900–2010
A. B. Edgell, Valeriya Mechkova, D. Altman, M. Bernhard, Staffan I Lindberg
Democratization - 2018 -
Democracy at
Dusk?
Anna Lührmann, Staffan I. Lindberg, Valeriya Mechkova, Moa Olin, Francesco Piccinelli Casagrande, Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca, Laura Saxer
2017 -
How much democratic
backsliding?
Valeriya Mechkova, Anna Lührmann, Staffan I Lindberg
Journal of Democracy - 2017 -
The Accountability Sequence: From De-jure to De-facto Constraints on
Governments
Valeriya Mechkova, Anna Lührmann, Staffan I Lindberg
2017 -
Constraining Governments: New indices of vertical, horizontal and diagonal
accountability
Anna Lührmann, Kyle L. Marquardt, Valeriya Mechkova
2017 -
From de-jure to de-facto: Mapping Dimensions and Sequences of
Accountability
Valeriya Mechkova, Anna Lührmann, Staffan I Lindberg
2017 -
When and Where Do Elections Matter? A Global Test of the Democratization by Elections Hypothesis,
1900-2012
Amanda B Edgell, Valeriya Mechkova, David Altman, Michael Bernhard, Staffan I Lindberg
2015 -
Saudi Arabia: A Country Report Based on V-Dem Data
1900-2012
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Burma: A Country Report Based on Data
1900-2012
Aung A. Hlling, Julio Teehankee, Yi-Ting Wang, Valeriya Mechkova, Vlad Ciobanu, Staffan I Lindberg
2013 -
Georgia: A Country Report Based on Data
1900-2012
Staffan I Lindberg, Medet Tuilegenov, Valeriya Mechkova, Eitan Tzelgov
2013