Valeriya Mechkova
DEPUTY CHIEF ANALYST
Department of PoliticalAbout Valeriya Mechkova
Presentation
PhD candidate at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, within the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project since the autumn of 2016.
In my dissertation I focus on how government accountability and political representation affect human development outcomes such as economic growth, infant and maternal mortality. I am particularly interested in the representation of minority groups and female's political representation.
In terms of technical skills, I specialize in time-series cross-sectional data analysis.
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. I also work part-time with the policy and outreach program of the V-Dem Institute. I am team leader on long-term consultancy project commissioned by USAID, which re-visits the issues of democracy, governance, and human rights, through producing research papers, country and regional analyses. I am also leading the work of the V-Dem input to the Post-2015 development agenda and measurement of Sustainable Development Goal 16. I have worked as consultant for 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.
Areas of interest
Democracy and human development; Accountability building; Political representation; TSCS analysis.
Education and training
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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Norms and rage: Gender and social media in the 2018 US mid-term elections.4,
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Valeriya Mechkova, S. L. Wilson
Electoral Studies - 2021-01-01 -
Female Empowerment and Economic
Growth
Sirianne Dahlum, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Valeriya Mechkova
- 2020-01-01 -
Gendered Accountability: When and Why Do Women's Policy Priorities Get
Implemented?
Valeriya Mechkova, Ruth Carlitz
European Political Science Review - 2020-01-01 -
Constraining Governments: New Indices of Vertical, Horizontal, and Diagonal
Accountability
Anna Lührmann, K. L. Marquardt, Valeriya Mechkova
American Political Science Review - 2020-01-01 -
Does Democracy Enhance Health? New Empirical Evidence
1900–2012
Yi-Ting Wang, Valeriya Mechkova, Frida Andersson
Political research quarterly - 2019-01-01 -
Introducing the Digital Society
Project
Valeriya Mechkova, Steven Wilson, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Zimmerman
- 2019-01-01 -
Does Gender Still Matter for Politics? The Case of the 2018 U.S. Elections on
Twitter
Valeriya Mechkova, Steven Wilson
- 2019-01-01 -
The Accountability Sequence: from De-Jure to De-Facto Constraints on
Governments
Valeriya Mechkova, Anna Lührmann, Staffan I. Lindberg
Studies in Comparative International Development - 2019-01-01 -
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 - 2018-01-01 -
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
- 2018-01-01 -
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 - 2018-01-01 -
How much democratic
backsliding?
Valeriya Mechkova, Anna Lührmann, Staffan I Lindberg
Journal of Democracy - 2017-01-01 -
Democracy at
Dusk?
Anna Lührmann, Staffan I. Lindberg, Valeriya Mechkova, Moa Olin, Francesco Piccinelli Casagrande, Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca, Laura Saxer
- 2017-01-01 -
The Accountability Sequence: From De-jure to De-facto Constraints on
Governments
Valeriya Mechkova, Anna Lührmann, Staffan I Lindberg
- 2017-01-01 -
Constraining Governments: New indices of vertical, horizontal and diagonal
accountability
Anna Lührmann, Kyle L. Marquardt, Valeriya Mechkova
- 2017-01-01 -
From de-jure to de-facto: Mapping Dimensions and Sequences of
Accountability
Valeriya Mechkova, Anna Lührmann, Staffan I Lindberg
- 2017-01-01 -
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
- 2015-01-01 -
Saudi Arabia: A Country Report Based on V-Dem Data
1900-2012
Staffan I Lindberg, Valeriya Mechkova
- 2015-01-01 -
Burma: A Country Report Based on Data
1900-2012
Aung A. Hlling, Julio Teehankee, Yi-Ting Wang, Valeriya Mechkova, Vlad Ciobanu, Staffan I Lindberg
- 2013-01-01 -
Georgia: A Country Report Based on Data
1900-2012
Staffan I Lindberg, Medet Tuilegenov, Valeriya Mechkova, Eitan Tzelgov
- 2013-01-01