While deliberative mini-publics show potential for procedural innovations and compromise, they are no means to strengthen trust in institutions and stop populism, argues political scientist Yanina Welp.
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July 3, 2026 - 09:00
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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
