Lisa Zanotti

I'm a comparative political scientist based at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, and an associate researcher at Ultra-Lab, the Laboratory for the Study of the Far Right in Santiago de Chile.

My research focuses on the far right, populism, and democratic backsliding in Europe and Latin America. It sits at the intersection of party politics, discourse analysis, and computational text methods — I'm especially interested in how far-right movements adapt their messaging across different institutional contexts, and what that erosion of language means for democratic institutions before any policy changes.

Before CEU, I held positions at Diego Portales University in Santiago de Chile. I've published with Cambridge University Press, Routledge, and leading political science journals, and I have written commissioned analyses for foundations including the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, FEPS, and CLACAI. I take on selected applied projects in this area.

I'm a regular commentator in European and international media on far-right politics in Europe and Latin America.