Steven Wilson

Assistant Professor/CTO

Brandeis University

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)