Carlos Meléndez is a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, United States). He was Associate Professor at Universidad Diego Portales (Chile) and postdoctoral researcher at the Central European University-Democracy Institute (Hungary) and at the Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (Chile). He has been a visiting professor at FLACSO-Ecuador, Universidad del Rosario (Colombia), Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), among others.

His research explores public opinion, political identities, support for the far right, and populist demand, using survey data and experimental survey methods, with a cross-regional perspective on Latin America and Europe. His work has been published in academic journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Democratization, Party Politics, Comparative Politics, Political Studies, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Politics in Latin America, and Revista de Ciencia Política (Chile), Colombia Internacional, among others.

Area of Activity: Public Opinion and Comparative Politics

Key words: Partisanship, Political Identities, Far-Right, Populism