What Is Democracy (To You)?

Vanessa A. Boese-Schlosser is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow the “Transformations of Democracy” Unit at WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and a research associate of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Prior to joining WZB, Vanessa held Assistant Professor positions at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institut at Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München, Germany as well as the V-Dem Institute. Her research focuses on the measurement of political institutions, on democratic resilience, on processes of regime transformation (democratization and autocratization) and on how these processes interact with conflict, or socio-economic outcomes. The findings from her research are published in journals such as the British Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, Political Science Research and Methods, Democratization, and the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy.