About

Yanina Welp is associate researcher at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, Graduate Institute, Geneva; editorial coordinator at Agenda Pública and co-founder of the Red de Politólogas. She was principal researcher at the Centre for Democracy Studies (2008-2019) and co-director of the Zurich Latin American Centre (2016-2019), both at the University of Zurich. She finished her Habilitation (highest degree in the Swiss German academic system) in 2015 at the University of St.Gallen, with the venia legendi in Latin American Studies and she holds two Bachelor degrees in Social Communication and Political Science from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), and a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the Pompeu Fabra University (Spain). She has been researcher ant the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, Catalonia Open University.(2004-2006), Pompeu Fabra University (2001-2003) and the University of Buenos Aires (1997-1999). Her main areas of research are dethe mechanisms of direct democracy, participatory democracy and e-democracy, democratization and populism.

Research Interests

Citizenship, Civil Society, Comparative Politics, Contentious Politics, Cyber Politics, Democracy, Democratisation, Gender, Governance, Latin America, Media, Political Participation, Populism, Referendums and Initiatives, Representation, Social Media

Current/Upcoming Events

Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Latin American Politics
• Democratic Innovations