Belén was a visiting scholar at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics of Sciences Po (France), the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research of the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and the Institute for German and International Political Party Law and Research of the University of Düsseldorf (Germany).
She also was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (Portugal).
Her principal research interests lie in the area of populism, radical right, political parties and party competition.
Climate Sceptics or Climate Nationalists? Understanding and Explaining Populist Radical Right Parties’ Positions towards Climate Change (1990–2022)
with Jakob Schwörer
Political Studies
En los márgenes de la democracia liberal: Populismo, nacionalismo y radicalismo ideológico en Europa (Comares, 2022)
Editor, with Ángel Valenci
Democracy Fatigue: An East European Epidemy (CEU Press, 2023)
Chapter: Populism in Southern Europe, with Ángel Valencia
In the name of God and Christianity: mapping parties’ and candidates’ religious communication in Latin America
with Jakob Schwörer
Religion, State & Society
