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Yanina Welp

Senior Research Fellow at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, Geneva Graduate Institute. She holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) and a BA in Political Science and Social Communication Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. She is a co-founder of the Network of Women Political Scientists.

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Ecuador and the eternal foundational referendum

In Ecuador, every political crisis finds its way out at the ballot box, but the successive popular consultations have ended up reinforcing the cycle of uncertainty rather than fostering institutional renewal.