Verónica Hurtado is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Her research areas are the political economy of development and political behaviour for Latin America, focusing on subnational variation and resource-dependent states.

Using a mixed-method approach that combines comparative historical analysis, network analysis, and survey experiments, her dissertation analyzes the origin and evolution of populist mobilization in two Andean countries: Peru and Bolivia. Specifically, she focuses on the individual-level drivers of populist demand and the challenges local populist mobilization face to reach national success.

UBC Faculty of Arts Graduate Student Research Award, 2020.

UBC Dissertation Research Funding, Sutton-MacGregor Fund and Political Science Department, 2020.

UBC Liu Scholar Fellowship, Liu Institute of Global Studies, 2019.