Research

Research Interests
Political economy, peace economics, conflict research, democratization, autocratization
Research Under Review
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Copyright: Martina Sander-Blanck
"Are Most Journalists Killed in Democracies?" Copyright: Vanessa Boese-Schlosser
Peer Reviewed Articles

2024
- Boese-Schlosser, V.A., Eberhardt, M. (2024). Democracy Doesn't Always Happen Over Night: Regime Change in Stages and Economic Growth. The Review of Economics and Statistics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01461
       Replication Data

2023
- Boese, V. A. & Wilson, M. C. (2023). Contestation and Participation: Concepts, Measurement, and Inference. International Area Studies Review, 26(2), 89 - 106. DOI: doi.org/10.1177/22338659221120970
     Erratum: The printed manuscript includes a Figure that was not ours as Figure 1. This version of the manuscript includes the correct Figure 1.

2022
- Boese, V. A., Gates, S., Knutsen, C. H., Nygård, H. M., & Strand, H. (2022). Patterns of Democracy over Space and Time. International Studies Quarterly, 66(3) 1-19. DOI: doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqac041
         "Patterns of Democracy" Project Website (inkl. replication materials)
- Wilson, M.C., Medzihorsky, J., Maerz, S.F., Lührmann, A., Lindenfors, P., Edgell, A.B., Boese, V.A. and Lindberg, S.I. (2022).  Episodes of Liberalization in Autocracies: A New Approach to Quantitatively Studying Democratization. Political Science Research and Methods, 11(3), 501 - 520. DOI: doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2022.11
- Boese, V. A., Lundstedt, M., Morrison, K., Sato, Y., Lindberg, S. I. (2022). State of the world 2021: autocratization changing its nature?. Democratization, 29(6), 983 - 1013. Editor
invited. DOI: doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2022.2069751


2021
- Bayerlein, M., Boese, V. A., Gates, S., Kamin, K., Murshed, S. M. (2021) Populism and COVID-19: How Populist Governments (Mis)Handle the Pandemic. Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, 2(3):389-428. DOI: doi.org/10.1561/113.00000043. Online Appendix here.
- Edgell, A., Boese, V. A., Maerz, S. F., Lindenfors, P., & Lindberg, S. I. (2021) The Institutional Order of Liberalization. British Journal of Political Science, 1-7. DOI: doi.org/10.1017/S000712342100020X
- Boese, V. A., Lindberg, S. I., & Lührmann, A.(2021) Waves of autocratization and democratization: a rejoinder. Democratization, 28(6):1202-1210. DOI: doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2021.1923006
- Boese, V. A., Edgell, A. B., Hellmeier, S., Maerz, S. F., & Lindberg, S. I. (2021) How democracies prevail: democratic resilience as a two-stage process. Democratization, 28(5):885-907. DOI: doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2021.1891413.    Replication files     Online Appendix


2019
- Boese, V. A. (2019). How (not) to measure democracy. International Area Studies Review, 22(2), 95–127. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2233865918815571
    Erratum: Figure 1 of the printed manuscript includes errors in the high-level democracy indices. This erratum contains a corrected version of the figure.
- Boese V. A. & Kamin, K. (2019).'Tis but thy name that is my enemy: on the construction of macro panel data in peace economics. Economics of Peace and Security Journal, 14(1), 5-26. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15355/epsj.14.1.5


2015
- Boese, V. A. (2015). Viva la Revolucion, or: Do Revolutions Lead to More Democracy? Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 21(4), 541-551. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/peps-2015-0027
Selected Other Publications

2024
2023
  • Wilson, M. C., Edgell, A. B., Sato, Y., Boese-Schlosser, V., & Lindberg, S. I. (2023). Autocratization—Not an “Illiberal Turn”. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197639108.013.20
  • Boese-Schlosser, V.A., & Gyimah-Boadi, E. (2023). Strengthening Democracy – Towards Resilient Institutions and Societies in the G7 and Africa. Policy Paper prepared for the German Federal Foreign Office
  • Klatt, N., & Boese-Schlosser, V.A. (2023) Authoritarianism and disinformation: the dangerous link. The Loop, European Consortium for Political Research

2022
  • Boese-Schlosser, V.A. (2022). Why Democracy Is Worth Fighting For (Even In The G7). Non-paper accompanying her keynote speech at the G7 Conference
    "Strengthening Democracy – Towards Resilient Institutions and Societies in the G7 and Africa", Berlin
  • Boese, V.A., Alizada, N., Lundstedt, M., Morrison, K., Natsika, N., Sato, Y., Tai, H. & Lindberg, S.I. (2022). Autocratization Changing Nature? Democracy Report 2022. Varieties of Democracy Institute (V-Dem)
  • Alizada, N., Lundstedt, M., Morrison, K., Sato, Y., Boese, V.A. & Lindberg, S.I. (2022). Case for Democracy: Conference Report. University of Gothenburg: V-Dem Institute.
  • Morrison, K. &  Boese, V. A. (2022). The Case for Democracy: Democracies Produce More Transparent and Higher-Quality Data, V-Dem Policy Brief, Number 34.

2021
  • Lundstedt, M. & Boese, V. A. (2021). Uganda. V-Dem Institute Country Brief, Number 11.
  • Boese, V.A. (2021). Demokratie in Gefahr? Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, June 2021
  • Boese, V.A., Lindberg, S.I. (2021). What is Democracy Good for? Introducing “The Case for Democracy”. In: Alizada et al. (2021). Autocratization Turns Viral. Democracy Report 2021. University of Gothenburg: V-Dem Institute.
Datasets
  • Edgell, A.B., Maerz, S. F., Maxwell, L., Morgan, R., Medzihorsky, J., Wilson, M.C., Boese, V. A., Hellmeier, S., Lachapelle, J., Lindenfors, P., Lührmann, A., & Lindberg, S. I.. (2020). Episodes of Regime Transformation Dataset,  https://github.com/vdeminstitute/ERT
  • Edgell, A.B., Lührmann, A., Maerz, S. F., Alijla, A., Boese, V. A., Fernandes, T., Gafuri, A., Hirndorf, D., Howell, C., Ilchenko, N., Kasuya, Y., Lachapelle, J., Medzihorsky, J., Shakir Khawaja, A., Shenga, C., Tiulegenov, M., Tung, H. H., Wilson, M. C., & Lindberg, S. I.. (2020). Democracy and Freedom During Covid-19, Version 1.0. V-Dem Institute. https://www.v-dem.net/en/our-work/research-projects/pandemic-backsliding/
Working Paper
  • Boese-Schlosser, V.A. and Eberhardt, M. (2025), ‘DP20146 Democracy in Decline: The Economic Implications of Democratic Collapse‘, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 20146. CEPR Press, Paris & London. 
  • Boese-Schlosser, V.A. (2024) Are Most Journalists Killed in Democracies? WZB TD discussion paper, SP V 2024-501
  • Morrison, K., Lundstedt, M., Sato, Y., Boese-Schlosser, V. A., Lindberg, S. I. (2023) Chains in episodes of democratization. V-Dem Working Paper, 141
  • Boese, V. A., & Eberhardt, M. (2022). Which Institutions Rule? Unbundling the Democracy-Growth Nexus. V-Dem Working Paper, 131
  • Boese, V. A., & Wilson, M. C. (2022). A Short History of Contestation and Participation. V-Dem Working Paper, 130
  • Boese, V. A. & Eberhardt, M. (2021) Democracy doesn’t always happen overnight: Regime change in stages and economic growth. GEP Research Paper 2021/01
  • Wilson, M.C. & Boese, V. A. (2020). Empirical Dimensions of Democracy. V-Dem Working Paper, 109
  • Edgell, A. B., Wilson, M. C., Boese, V. A., & Grahn, S. (2020). Democratic Legacies: Using Democratic Stock to Assess Norms, Growth, and Regime Trajectories. V-Dem Working Paper, 100
Work in Progress

Boese, V. A. & Kamin, K.. Quadrangulating Peace: Democracy, Development, Trade and Conflict
Boese, V. A., Gates, S., & Strand, H.. Breaking the rule(s): modeling elections with positional dynamics
Boese, V. A., Dahl, M., Gates, S., Hegre, H., & Strand, H.. Why Waves? Global Patterns of Democratization and Autocratization since 1798