Yanina Welp is a Research fellow at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, Graduate Institute (Geneva), editorial coordinator at Agenda Pública and co-founder of the Red de Politólogas. Between 2008 and 2018 she was a principal researcher at the Centre for Democracy Studies and co-director of the Zurich Latin American Centre (2016-2019), both at the University of Zurich
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Why citizens’ assemblies can’t tackle populism
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Deliberative mini-publics are no means to stop populism, argues political scientist Yanina Welp.
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On April 10, Mexicans will vote on recalling their president. The process, which allows voters to remove an elected official, has a Swiss history.
Fourth of July and the reinvention of modern democracy
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After decades of conflict, Chile is now on a democratic new path, inspiring the whole world – and learning lessons from others like Switzerland.
Freedom of expression: universal, but not absolute
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Under threat in many countries and pushed to its limits elsewhere, freedom of expression as we know it is at a critical crossroads.
