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Fear of the police and the fragility of legitimacy: Insights from Chile and Brazil
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Introduction
Matías Deneken is a Chilean sociologist and data scientist whose work sits at the intersection of the sociology of violence, democracy and computational social science. His research examines how social processes unfold in contemporary societies through the rigorous application of quantitative and computational methods. He has contributed to major large-scale longitudinal projects, including the Estudio Longitudinal de Relaciones Interculturales (ELRI) and the Estudio Panel de Percepciones de Seguridad y Policías (EPSEP).
See the interactive Current Agenda for literature reviews, methods notes, and upcoming posts.
Now
Today, Matías is fully committed to building MethodoLab — a data science initiative he founded to push the frontier of computational methods in social research. He is also actively pursuing doctoral study opportunities (exciting news coming soon).
Past Experience
Matías was affiliated with the Government School at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile through the Observatory of Violence and Social Legitimacy (www.oles.cl), where he worked as a Research Assistant designing and maintaining large-scale longitudinal databases and conducting automated web scraping pipelines for systematic monitoring of national newspapers.
He has been a Quantitative Studies Researcher at the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Studies (CIIR) (www.ciir.cl) since December 2022, where he coordinated the Longitudinal Survey on Intercultural Relations (ELRI) — one of the most ambitious longitudinal instruments in Chilean social science — and co-edited the book (RE) Configuraciones Interculturales.
Technical Skills
Data Processing: R, Python, Stata
Text Processing: Quanteda, OpenAI
Languages: Spanish (Native), English (B2)