Pilar Veas is a PhD candidate in Social Sciences at Diego Portales University (Chile) and holds a Master’s in Public Policy from Sciences Po (France). Her doctoral dissertation explores the relationship between populism and direct democracy, analyzing both populist supply and demand through a comparative lens across Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Western Europe. She specializes in quantitative and mixed-methods approaches, with expertise in survey data analysis, statistical modeling, and comparative research designs.
Pilar has presented her work at national and international conferences, including the ECPR General Conference, and was recently a visiting fellow at the CEU Democracy Institute in Hungary. Beyond her research, she has organized academic workshops and public discussions on democracy, participation, and constitutional change, fostering dialogue between scholars, practitioners, and wider audiences. She has also engaged in public dissemination of social science research through contributions to Le Monde Diplomatique (Chilean edition) and the French platform Mediapart. In her teaching, she covers social policy, quantitative methods, and qualitative methods, with a strong commitment to inclusive and innovative pedagogy.
Specializations
| Methodological | Quantitative Methods & Mixed Methods |
| Topical | Populism, Democracy, & Mechanisms of Direct Democracy |
| Regional | Latin America, Eastern Europe, & Western Europe |