Steven Wilson

Associate Professor/CTO

Brandeis University/V-Dem

Steven Lloyd Wilson is an assistant professor of politics at Brandeis University, the Chief Technical Officer of Demscore, project manager for the Varieties of Democracy Institute, and co-PI of the Digital Society Project. His research focuses on comparative democratization, cyber-security, and the effect of the Internet and social media on authoritarian regimes, particularly in the post-Soviet world.

Selected Publications

2021

Wilson, Steven (With Mechkova, et al.). Digital Society Project Dataset v3. Gothenburg, Sweden V-Dem Institute: 2021.

Wilson, Steven (with Coppedge, et al.). V-Dem [Country-Year/Country- Date] Dataset v11. Gothenburg, Sweden V-Dem Institute: 2021.

Wilson, Steven (with Jeremy Gelman and Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca). "Mixing Messages: How Candidates Vary in Their Use of Twitter." Journal of Information Technology and Politics 18. 1 (2021): 101-115.

Wilson, Steven (with Jeremy Gelman). "Measuring Congressional Partisanship and Its Consequences." Legislative Studies Quarterly -. - (2021)

Wilson, Steven (with Valeriya Mechkova). "Norms and Rage: Gender and Social Media in the 2018 U.S. Mid-Term Elections." Electoral Studies 69. Feb (2021)