Sponsored by the Jean Monnet EU Center of Excellence for Comparative Populism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Political Science Institute at the University of Brasilia.
Italy
Lisa Zanotti is an Associate Researcher at the Research Institute for Social Science at Diego Portales University in Santiago de Chile and she is currently a visiting scholar at the Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. She holds a joint Ph.D. in Political Science from Diego Portales University (Chile) and in Humanities from Leiden University (Netherlands). Her research focuses on party systems, populism, and attitudes toward democracy. With Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte, Jose Rama, and Andres Santana) she is currently under contract with the Routledge’s Extremism and Democracy series for the book “VOX: The Rise of the Spanish Populist Radical Right”
Spain
Carolina Plaza Colodro is a postdoctoral researcher fellow at the Area of Political Science at the University of Salamanca, Spain. She is a Sociologist by the University of Barcelona and holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Politics from the University of Salamanca. She has been a visiting researcher at Università degli Studi di Milano (2016), University of Leicester (2016) and, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2020). Her academic interests are related to party systems, populism, and Euroscepticism, both at the supply and demand side of electoral competition. In her postdoctoral project, Carolina approaches the intersection between populist attitudes, political preferences and, socioeconomic characteristics of the different social groups, and their role in party system transformation. Her investigations have been published in West European Politics, Electoral Studies and, Politics, among others.