Carolina
Plaza Colodro

Carolina Plaza Colodro is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of Political Science at the University of Salamanca. She is a sociologist from the University of Barcelona and holds a PhD 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), Universidade Nova da Lisboa (2020) and Universidad Diego Portales, Chile (2022). Her academic interests are comparative politics, public opinion and political participation in contemporary political systems, with special emphasis on Southern European countries. Her scientific production has as its cornerstone the study of populism, Euroscepticism and other preferences, gender, redistribution of wealth or environmental protection in party systems. Her research has been published in West European Politics, Mediterranean Politics and Electoral Studies, among others. As a teacher, she teaches or has taught Introduction to Political Science, Comparative Method and Methodology in Social Sciences, Democracy and Governance in Europe, Public Opinion, Political Communication Tools, Parties and Party Systems, Social Movements, Gender Analysis and Political Corruption.