About

Susana Salgado is Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, where she coordinates competitively funded research projects and teaches at the PhD programme in Comparative Politics. Before joining the University of Lisbon in 2015, Susana held positions at the New University of Lisbon (Portugal) and at the University of Oxford (UK). She also held visiting positions in Brazil, Italy, and Australia. Susana’s main research interests include political communication, democracy and democratization processes, populism, as well as the impact of different types of media on democratic politics. Susana’s work has a strong interdisciplinary perspective, and her approaches to these topics have been mainly comparative and mixed methods.

Research Interests

Citizenship, Comparative Politics, Democracy, Democratisation, Elections, Extremism, Media, Populism, Campaign, Candidate, Communication, Comparative Perspective, Decision Making, Mixed Methods

Current/Upcoming Events

Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Political Communication
• Internet and Politics
• Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour in a Comparative Perspective
• Extremism and Democracy
• Citizenship
• Democratic Innovations
• Political Methodology
• Politics and Technology
• Participation and Mobilisation
• Political Sociology
• The Sciences of the Democracies
• European Union