Books

Corruption as a Last Resort: Adapting to the Market in Central Asia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014.

Economic Autonomy and Democracy: Hybrid Regimes in Russia and Kyrgyzstan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Varieties of Democracy: Measuring Two Centuries of Political Change. (Michael Coppedge, John Gerring, Adam N. Glynn, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Staffan I. Lindberg, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Jan Teorell, with David Altman, Michael Bernhard, Fernando Bizzarro, Joshua Krusell, Matthew Maguire, Kyle Marquardt, Kelly McMann, Valeriya Mechkova, Farhad Miri, Josefine Pernes, Jeffrey Staton, Natalia Stepanova, Eitan Tzelgov, Yi-ting Wang). New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Articles

“Assessing Data Quality: An Approach and An Application.” (Kelly McMann, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim, Jan Teorell, and Staffan Lindberg) Political Analysis, (2021), DOI: 10.1017/pan.2021.27. pdf

“Explaining Subnational Regime Variation: Country-Level Factors,” (Kelly M. McMann, Matthew Maguire, John Gerring, Michael Coppedge, Staffan Lindberg), Comparative Politics, (2020), DOI: 10.5129/001041521X16007785801364. pdf

“Why Low Levels of Democracy Promote Corruption and High Levels Diminish It.” (Kelly M. McMann, Brigitte Seim, Jan Teorell, and Staffan Lindberg) Political Research Quarterly, (2019), DOI: 10.1177/1065912919862054. pdf

“Measuring Subnational Democracy: Toward Improved Regime Typologies and Theories of Regime Change.” Democratization, 25, 1 (2018). pdf

“Developing State Legitimacy: The Credibility of Messengers and the Utility, Fit and Success of Ideas.” Comparative Politics, 48,4 (July 2016), 538-556. pdf

“Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: A New Approach” (Michael Coppedge and John Gerring, with David Altman, Michael Bernhard, Steven Fish, Allen Hicken, Matthew Kroenig, Staffan I. Lindberg, Kelly McMann, Pamela Paxton, Holli A. Semetko, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Jeffrey Staton, and Jan Teorell,) Perspectives on Politics, 9, 2, (2011), 247-267. pdf

“Market Reform as a Stimulus to Particularistic Politics.” Comparative Political Studies, 42, 7 (2009), 971-994. pdf

“A Survey of Democracy in Russia’s Regions.” (Kelly M. McMann and Nikolai V. Petrov) Post-Soviet Geography and Economics, 41, 3 (2000), 155-182. pdf

Book Chapters

“The Shrinking of the Welfare State: Central Asians’ Assessments of Soviet and Post-Soviet Governance.” Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present. eds. Jeff Sahadeo and Russell Zanca. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007, 233-247. pdf

“The Civic Realm in Kyrgyzstan: Soviet Economic Legacies and Activists’ Expectations.” The Transformation of Central Asia: States and Societies from Soviet Rule to Independence. ed. Pauline Jones Luong. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003, 213-245. pdf

“The Personal Risks of Party Development.” Dilemmas of Transition in Post-Soviet Countries. ed. Joel C. Moses. Chicago: Burnham, Inc. Publishers, 2003, 163-186. pdf

Datasets

Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem). Project manager for subnational government for this dataset of more than 470 indicators of democracy for each country of the world from 1789 to the present. Versions 1-4, 5 (first public release), 6- 13. Details at https://v-dem.net. Selected for the 2016 Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Data Set Award from the American Political Science Association.

Epidemics Dataset. Compiler of original dataset about epidemics that occurred in the years 1980 to 2019 in countries of the world, with help from epidemiologist Daniel Tisch and research assistants. 

Central Asian 2015 Mass Survey Datasets. Collaborator on surveys about media usage and attitudes toward foreign countries, which included 2000 respondents each in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.

Central Asian 2003 Mass Survey Datasets. Co-PI for political and economic surveys of 1500 respondents each in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.

Invited Articles, Essays, and Reports (selected)

“Authoritarianism: Learning from Subnational Enclaves” Comparative Democratization, 13, 2, American Political Science Association (June 2015), 3, 18-19. pdf

Improving Theories of Regimes, Regime Continuity, and Regime Change Through Subnational Research: The Utility of the Varieties of Democracy Dataset” Comparative Democratization, 10, 2, American Political Science Association (June 2012), 4, 23-27. pdf

“Research Report. V-Dem: A New Way to Measure Democracy” (Staffan I. Lindberg, Michael Coppedge, John Gerring, and Jan Teorell, with David Altman, Michael Bernhard, Steven Fish, Adam Glynn, Alan Hicken, Matthew Kroenig, Kelly McMann, Pamela Paxton, Daniel Pemstein, Megan Reif, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Jeffrey Staton, Eitan Tzelgov, and Yi-ting Wang,) Journal of Democracy, 25, 2 (July 2014), 159-169. pdf

Working Papers (selected)

“Democratic Consolidation: A Theory of Territorial Consolidation,” (Kelly M. McMann and Matthew Maguire) Varieties of Democracy Institute: Working Paper No. 74. August 2018. pdf

“Democracy Aid Effectiveness: Variation Across Regime Types,” (Anna Lührmann, Kelly M. McMann, and Carolien van Ham) Varieties of Democracy Institute: Working Paper No. 40. January 2017. pdf

“The Problem of Subnational Unevenness in Democracy.” Stockholm: International IDEA, 2014. pdf