Timofey Agarin
Biographic Data
| ID | 325310 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timofey Agarin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timofey |
| FAMILY NAME | Agarin |
| SIGNATURE | AGARIN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5880-3445 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 149 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Managing Access to Opportunities: The Politics of Domination
The Politics of Domination engages established and broadly accepted explanations of intergroup conflict while bridging distinct-if at times competing-subfields of comparative politics.It is a timely reflection on ethnic control, intergroup conflict, institutional reform, state-building, and ultimately the importance of power distribution for stability in divided societies.Rather than approaching the book as a prescriptive intervention, my contrib…
The environment as a second policy dimension in a deeply divided society: The politics of Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh crisis
Environmental concerns are often marginalised in post-conflict societies. Especially under power-sharing, political parties tend to prioritise their ethno-national electoral segments’ interests, rather than co-operating across divides, reducing cross-cutting concerns to a secondary policy dimension and compromising joint policy-making. Even given inauspicious institutional incentives, however, shared priorities can encourage mass co-operation. Th…
Unfortunate Electoral Designs for Postconflict Democracies: Lessons from Dayton for the Western Balkans
This paper argues that the combination of electoral and institutional design in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) implemented by the Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA) – while intended to stabilize peace through consociational and territorial powersharing – paradoxically entrenches ethnopolitical divisions rather than fosters transformation. The use of open-list proportional representation (PR) electoral system and the Sainte-Laguë method for allocating leg…
Pork Barrel and Identity Politics: Explaining a Minority Party’s Electoral Success in Lithuania
Our article describes the lifecycle of Lithuania’s Electoral Action of Poles–Christian Families Alliance (LLRA-KŠS) party that has been a part of country’s political landscape for near 30 years. Despite its seemingly ethnic program, the party has a poor track record for delivering on its electoral promises. Yet, it has been continuously supported by the majority of Polish-speakers in Lithuania. The background of the nationalizing state, which enc…
Are Segmental Parties Bad for Women? Rethinking the Challenges of Representation in Consociational Power-Sharing
Consociational power-sharing mandates representation of politically salient groups in government and encourages their participation in decision making. This leaves identities and issues not centrally related to the primary political division technically negligible for political stability. That cross-segmental policy issues in general and those specifically of concerns to women in divided societies enjoy low priority in dominant political parties …
Making Representative Politics Work: Cross‐Segmental Parties in Consociations
Cross‐segmental parties are outliers in consociations dominated by ethnic parties. While they often receive comparatively limited electoral support, they have the ability to make representative politics work. Cross‐segmental parties can successfully represent cross‐communal interests and encourage governments to focus on non‐segmental issues by bringing their ‘second policy dimension’ to the attention of segmental parties and encouraging ‘issue s…
The (Not So) Surprising Longevity of Identity Politics: Contemporary Challenges of the State-Society Compact in Central Eastern Europe
Political dejection in a divided society: A challenge for Latvia’s democracy
Ethnically divided societies often seek political cohesion by pursuing nationalizing policies. Latvia has had some experience of this, for example, with the notion that citizens should speak the national language and respect government institutions coincides with portrayals of ethnic minorities as a challenge to democracy. The focus on nation-state building has resulted in persistently low levels of political engagement and public confidence amon…
Nonelectoral Participation in Deeply Divided Societies: Transforming Consociations from the Ground Up
Premised on elite accommodation, consociations provide little consideration for citizens’ input on institutional change. Likewise, valuable analyses of cross-community political participation in divided societies have emerged in recent years, yet whether the relationship between the grassroot and formal political process has broader consequences remains to be fully explored. The article examines the conditions in which nonelectoral participation …
Cross-segmental parties in consociational systems: Downplaying prowess to access power in Northern Ireland
Political parties are afforded a key role in making consociational democracy work; however, parties that dis-identify with salient identities and appeal to voters across the ethno-political divide face barriers when interacting with voters and with other, segmental parties. Nevertheless, such cross-segmental parties often thrive and even ascend to power. Northern Ireland’s cross-segmental parties – the Alliance Party, the Green Party, and People …
The Sage Handbook of Political Science
Source Agritrop Cirad (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/603489/)
The (not so) surprising longevity of identity politics: Contemporary challenges of the state-society compact in Central Eastern Europe
The article argues that across the East European region ongoing uncertainty about the nature of the state-society compact is central to continuous relevance of "national" in politics. This compact defines who owns the state and who is to benefits from its current form. Since postcommunist nation-state-building was as much about the exclusion of some residents from the political community as it was about limiting states' reliance on thick politica…
How power-sharing includes and excludes non-dominant communities: Introduction to the special issue
As the introduction to the special issue titled Democratisation in Divided Places: Designing Power-Sharing Institutions for Broad Inclusion, this article situates the themes, issues, and findings of the issue in a broad disciplinary perspective. Drawing from theories of constitutional design, peacebuilding, democratisation, and ethnonational accommodation, the article outlines the trade-offs that power-sharing faces in war-to-peace transitions an…
The limits of inclusion: Representation of minority and non-dominant communities in consociational and liberal democracies
Consociationalism starts with the assumption that in divided societies there are multiple groups with reasonable claims which leads to the development of group sensitive mechanisms for political representation. While consociations are put in place to ensure the participation of groups whose past disenfranchisement from (equal) political representation resulted in violence, their disregard for individuals and identities of other, non-dominant grou…
The NGO Game. Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in the Balkans and Beyond
Since Tocqueville, citizen’s associations have often been hailed as sine qua non of democracy. Civil society groups and NGOs are widely believed to stimulate engagement and political socialisation
Others in Deeply Divided Societies: A Research Agenda
This article identifies a central problem in the theory and practice of democracy in divided societies: the systematic exclusion of Others. Defining the exclusion-amid-inclusion (EAI) dilemma of consociational power-sharing, whereby in including the main groups to the conflict it works to exclude those beyond these groups, the article offers the first systematic conceptualization of this issue. The article outlines the type of individuals and gro…
Talk the talk, or walk the walk? Changing narratives in Europeanization research
Over the past two decades, there has been a growing interest in Europeanization, both within and beyond the European Union (EU). The impact of Eastern enlargement in 2004 on candidate and neighbourhood countries has attracted scholarly attention, and a consensus currently exists on the success of the EU’s transformative power through the employment of a conditionality mechanism. However, the limits of EU conditionality upon candidate countries an…
Changes in the narratives of Europeanization. Reviewing the impact of the union before the crisis
European style electoral politics in an ethnically divided society. The case of Kosovo
Our paper takes as its starting point the premise that elections are central moments in the life of polities: these are the times when individual citizens demonstrate support or otherwise of political institutions and regimes, assess their accountability and set agendas for the next government. In short, elections allow us to observe whether and how political regimes live up to society's expectations. This issue has particular resonance in deeply…
Introduction to the special issue: Citizens’ participation in post-communist Europe
Research Article| July 09 2016 Introduction to the special issue: Citizens' participation in post-communist Europe Timofey Agarin Timofey Agarin Queen's University, Belfast, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Communist and Post-Communist Studies (2016) 49 (3): 201–206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2016.06.008 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary…
Chasing the green buck? Environmental activism in post-communist Baltic States
The paper investigates the dynamics and volution of issues on the agenda of Baltic environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) since the collapse of communism. The past research on Baltic environment activism suggests that these enjoy high visibility because they tapped the core societal views of natural environment as a crucial asset of a nation. As we demonstrate in this paper, the changes in agendas of Baltic environmental non-governme…
Extending the Concept of Ethnocracy: Exploring the Debate in the Baltic Context
The advance of liberal understanding of democracy with its interest in and constrained ability to interfere with citizens' identities made cases of ethnocracy rare over the past decades. Over the past 25 years, Baltic politics and societies have experienced considerable change, however, as I demonstrate, considerable debate persists around the issues central to the argument about ethnocracy in the region. In the context, when discussing the centr…
E stonia, L atvia, and L ithuania
Ethnic diversity has a long history in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, yet the states are entrusted to protect the interests of ethnic core nations rather than those of all residents. The official narrative of statehood in the Baltic states emphasizes the principle of state continuity from pre‐Soviet republics to the present. In so doing, it entrenches inequality between the titular ethnic communities and small groups of “historical minorities” a…
Flawed Premises and Unexpected Consequences: Support of Regional Languages in Europe
This article discusses the relationship between three language communities in Europe with variant levels of official recognition, namely Kashub, Sorb, and Silesian, and the institutions of their host states as regards their respective use, promotion, and revitalization. Most language communities across the world campaign for recognition within a geographic/political region, or on the basis of a historic/group identity to ensure their language's u…
Romanians in Western Europe: Migration, Status Dilemmas, and Transnational Connections
Romanians in Western Europe: Migration, Status Dilemmas, and Transnational Connections." Journal of Borderlands Studies, 29(4), pp. 533–534
Others in Deeply Divided Societies: A Research Agenda
This article identifies a central problem in the theory and practice of democracy in divided societies: the systematic exclusion of Others. Defining the exclusion-amid-inclusion (EAI) dilemma of consociational power-sharing, whereby in including the main groups to the conflict it works to exclude those beyond these groups, the article offers the first systematic conceptualization of this issue. The article outlines the type of individuals and gro…
How power-sharing includes and excludes non-dominant communities: Introduction to the special issue
As the introduction to the special issue titled Democratisation in Divided Places: Designing Power-Sharing Institutions for Broad Inclusion, this article situates the themes, issues, and findings of the issue in a broad disciplinary perspective. Drawing from theories of constitutional design, peacebuilding, democratisation, and ethnonational accommodation, the article outlines the trade-offs that power-sharing faces in war-to-peace transitions an…
Unpacking the Roma Participation Puzzle: Presence, Voice and Influence
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on 20 March 2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1369183X.2014.897599
Travelling without moving? Limits of European Governance for Romani inclusion
The European Union's commitment to citizen participation in policymaking and implementation reflects a wider concern for securing Europe's ‘unity in diversity’. However, across its member-states, individuals belonging to the diverse linguistic, ethnic and social groups often referred to as ‘Roma’ find themselves excluded from political, social and economic participation in countries where they live. The past decade saw the appearance of a more co…
Civil society versus nationalizing state? Advocacy of minority rights in the post-socialist Baltic states
Strong civil society provides individuals with arenas to bring their interests to the attention of policymakers. In so doing, civil society organizations (CSOs) can support state policies, but can also criticize policies. This paper argues that most minority rights advocacy CSOs in the Baltic states have little say in the crafting of policy and are compartmentalized into the existing agendas, with only a few groups able to evaluate policies indep…
Resident Aliens? Explaining Minority Disaffection with Democratic Politics in the Baltic States
Commentators and scholars alike recognize the important role political dissatisfaction plays in the process of regime change. A considerable body of literature has used dissatisfaction with a regime and distrust in political institutions to explain political dynamics during democratization's initial phase, yet these indicators are rarely used to assess disaffection with politics in established democratic regimes. Recent research on the post-commu…
The limits of inclusion: Representation of minority and non-dominant communities in consociational and liberal democracies
Consociationalism starts with the assumption that in divided societies there are multiple groups with reasonable claims which leads to the development of group sensitive mechanisms for political representation. While consociations are put in place to ensure the participation of groups whose past disenfranchisement from (equal) political representation resulted in violence, their disregard for individuals and identities of other, non-dominant grou…
Cross-segmental parties in consociational systems: Downplaying prowess to access power in Northern Ireland
Political parties are afforded a key role in making consociational democracy work; however, parties that dis-identify with salient identities and appeal to voters across the ethno-political divide face barriers when interacting with voters and with other, segmental parties. Nevertheless, such cross-segmental parties often thrive and even ascend to power. Northern Ireland’s cross-segmental parties – the Alliance Party, the Green Party, and People …
Chasing the green buck? Environmental activism in post-communist Baltic States
The paper investigates the dynamics and volution of issues on the agenda of Baltic environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) since the collapse of communism. The past research on Baltic environment activism suggests that these enjoy high visibility because they tapped the core societal views of natural environment as a crucial asset of a nation. As we demonstrate in this paper, the changes in agendas of Baltic environmental non-governme…
Where have all the Environmentalists Gone? Baltic Greens in the mid-1990s
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
The work of Sisyphus: Squaring the circle of Roma recognition
Most special issues on Roma minorities want to alert readers to the devastating consequences of racist public attitudes and misdirected public policy. Here we don't shy away from such issues, but we also want to challenge our own scholarship and ask some fundamental questions about how we, as academics, are approaching such research. In this introduction the context of the special issue is explored, both in terms of the historic backdrop of an ex…
The (not so) surprising longevity of identity politics: Contemporary challenges of the state-society compact in Central Eastern Europe
The article argues that across the East European region ongoing uncertainty about the nature of the state-society compact is central to continuous relevance of "national" in politics. This compact defines who owns the state and who is to benefits from its current form. Since postcommunist nation-state-building was as much about the exclusion of some residents from the political community as it was about limiting states' reliance on thick politica…
Romanians in Western Europe: Migration, Status Dilemmas, and Transnational Connections
Romanians in Western Europe: Migration, Status Dilemmas, and Transnational Connections." Journal of Borderlands Studies, 29(4), pp. 533–534
Political dejection in a divided society: A challenge for Latvia’s democracy
Ethnically divided societies often seek political cohesion by pursuing nationalizing policies. Latvia has had some experience of this, for example, with the notion that citizens should speak the national language and respect government institutions coincides with portrayals of ethnic minorities as a challenge to democracy. The focus on nation-state building has resulted in persistently low levels of political engagement and public confidence amon…
Making Representative Politics Work: Cross‐Segmental Parties in Consociations
Cross‐segmental parties are outliers in consociations dominated by ethnic parties. While they often receive comparatively limited electoral support, they have the ability to make representative politics work. Cross‐segmental parties can successfully represent cross‐communal interests and encourage governments to focus on non‐segmental issues by bringing their ‘second policy dimension’ to the attention of segmental parties and encouraging ‘issue s…
Nonelectoral Participation in Deeply Divided Societies: Transforming Consociations from the Ground Up
Premised on elite accommodation, consociations provide little consideration for citizens’ input on institutional change. Likewise, valuable analyses of cross-community political participation in divided societies have emerged in recent years, yet whether the relationship between the grassroot and formal political process has broader consequences remains to be fully explored. The article examines the conditions in which nonelectoral participation …
Angels with dirty faces? European identity, politics of representation and recognition of Romani interests
This review essay discusses five volumes that grapple with questions of Romani inclusion and the problems Roma face across Europe. The volumes under review point to problems faced by Romani communities and analyse the various legal, political and social challenges that situation of the Roma poses to institutions of contemporary societies. The essay reviews the challenging nature of the status of Roma as we move away from the one-sided towards mor…
Are Segmental Parties Bad for Women? Rethinking the Challenges of Representation in Consociational Power-Sharing
Consociational power-sharing mandates representation of politically salient groups in government and encourages their participation in decision making. This leaves identities and issues not centrally related to the primary political division technically negligible for political stability. That cross-segmental policy issues in general and those specifically of concerns to women in divided societies enjoy low priority in dominant political parties …
Introduction to the special issue: Citizens’ participation in post-communist Europe
Research Article| July 09 2016 Introduction to the special issue: Citizens' participation in post-communist Europe Timofey Agarin Timofey Agarin Queen's University, Belfast, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Communist and Post-Communist Studies (2016) 49 (3): 201–206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2016.06.008 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary…
Flawed Premises and Unexpected Consequences: Support of Regional Languages in Europe
This article discusses the relationship between three language communities in Europe with variant levels of official recognition, namely Kashub, Sorb, and Silesian, and the institutions of their host states as regards their respective use, promotion, and revitalization. Most language communities across the world campaign for recognition within a geographic/political region, or on the basis of a historic/group identity to ensure their language's u…
Citizenship and Collective Identity in Europe
No abstract available
Nato–Russia Relations in the Twenty-First Century
Where have all the Environmentalists Gone? Baltic Greens in the mid-1990s
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Shrinking Citizenship: Discursive Practices That Limit Democratic Participation in Latvian Politics
Civil society versus nationalizing state? Advocacy of minority rights in the post-socialist Baltic states
Strong civil society provides individuals with arenas to bring their interests to the attention of policymakers. In so doing, civil society organizations (CSOs) can support state policies, but can also criticize policies. This paper argues that most minority rights advocacy CSOs in the Baltic states have little say in the crafting of policy and are compartmentalized into the existing agendas, with only a few groups able to evaluate policies indep…
Resident Aliens? Explaining Minority Disaffection with Democratic Politics in the Baltic States
Commentators and scholars alike recognize the important role political dissatisfaction plays in the process of regime change. A considerable body of literature has used dissatisfaction with a regime and distrust in political institutions to explain political dynamics during democratization's initial phase, yet these indicators are rarely used to assess disaffection with politics in established democratic regimes. Recent research on the post-commu…
Russian minority politics in post-Soviet Latvia and Kyrgyzstan: The transformative power of informal networks
Russian minority politics in post-Soviet Latvia and Kyrgyzstan: the transformative power of informal networks, by Michele E. Commercio, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, 248 pp
Ethnic Struggle, Coexistence, and Democratization in Eastern Europe
Flawed Premises and Unexpected Consequences: Support of Regional Languages in Europe
This article discusses the relationship between three language communities in Europe with variant levels of official recognition, namely Kashub, Sorb, and Silesian, and the institutions of their host states as regards their respective use, promotion, and revitalization. Most language communities across the world campaign for recognition within a geographic/political region, or on the basis of a historic/group identity to ensure their language's u…
Romanians in Western Europe: Migration, Status Dilemmas, and Transnational Connections
Romanians in Western Europe: Migration, Status Dilemmas, and Transnational Connections." Journal of Borderlands Studies, 29(4), pp. 533–534
Citizenship and Collective Identity in Europe
No abstract available
Travelling without moving? Limits of European Governance for Romani inclusion
The European Union's commitment to citizen participation in policymaking and implementation reflects a wider concern for securing Europe's ‘unity in diversity’. However, across its member-states, individuals belonging to the diverse linguistic, ethnic and social groups often referred to as ‘Roma’ find themselves excluded from political, social and economic participation in countries where they live. The past decade saw the appearance of a more co…
Angels with dirty faces? European identity, politics of representation and recognition of Romani interests
This review essay discusses five volumes that grapple with questions of Romani inclusion and the problems Roma face across Europe. The volumes under review point to problems faced by Romani communities and analyse the various legal, political and social challenges that situation of the Roma poses to institutions of contemporary societies. The essay reviews the challenging nature of the status of Roma as we move away from the one-sided towards mor…
The work of Sisyphus: Squaring the circle of Roma recognition
Most special issues on Roma minorities want to alert readers to the devastating consequences of racist public attitudes and misdirected public policy. Here we don't shy away from such issues, but we also want to challenge our own scholarship and ask some fundamental questions about how we, as academics, are approaching such research. In this introduction the context of the special issue is explored, both in terms of the historic backdrop of an ex…
Unpacking the Roma Participation Puzzle: Presence, Voice and Influence
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on 20 March 2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1369183X.2014.897599
E stonia, L atvia, and L ithuania
Ethnic diversity has a long history in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, yet the states are entrusted to protect the interests of ethnic core nations rather than those of all residents. The official narrative of statehood in the Baltic states emphasizes the principle of state continuity from pre‐Soviet republics to the present. In so doing, it entrenches inequality between the titular ethnic communities and small groups of “historical minorities” a…
Introduction to the special issue: Citizens’ participation in post-communist Europe
Research Article| July 09 2016 Introduction to the special issue: Citizens' participation in post-communist Europe Timofey Agarin Timofey Agarin Queen's University, Belfast, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Communist and Post-Communist Studies (2016) 49 (3): 201–206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2016.06.008 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary…
Chasing the green buck? Environmental activism in post-communist Baltic States
The paper investigates the dynamics and volution of issues on the agenda of Baltic environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) since the collapse of communism. The past research on Baltic environment activism suggests that these enjoy high visibility because they tapped the core societal views of natural environment as a crucial asset of a nation. As we demonstrate in this paper, the changes in agendas of Baltic environmental non-governme…
Extending the Concept of Ethnocracy: Exploring the Debate in the Baltic Context
The advance of liberal understanding of democracy with its interest in and constrained ability to interfere with citizens' identities made cases of ethnocracy rare over the past decades. Over the past 25 years, Baltic politics and societies have experienced considerable change, however, as I demonstrate, considerable debate persists around the issues central to the argument about ethnocracy in the region. In the context, when discussing the centr…
Talk the talk, or walk the walk? Changing narratives in Europeanization research
Over the past two decades, there has been a growing interest in Europeanization, both within and beyond the European Union (EU). The impact of Eastern enlargement in 2004 on candidate and neighbourhood countries has attracted scholarly attention, and a consensus currently exists on the success of the EU’s transformative power through the employment of a conditionality mechanism. However, the limits of EU conditionality upon candidate countries an…
Changes in the narratives of Europeanization. Reviewing the impact of the union before the crisis
European style electoral politics in an ethnically divided society. The case of Kosovo
Our paper takes as its starting point the premise that elections are central moments in the life of polities: these are the times when individual citizens demonstrate support or otherwise of political institutions and regimes, assess their accountability and set agendas for the next government. In short, elections allow us to observe whether and how political regimes live up to society's expectations. This issue has particular resonance in deeply…
Others in Deeply Divided Societies: A Research Agenda
This article identifies a central problem in the theory and practice of democracy in divided societies: the systematic exclusion of Others. Defining the exclusion-amid-inclusion (EAI) dilemma of consociational power-sharing, whereby in including the main groups to the conflict it works to exclude those beyond these groups, the article offers the first systematic conceptualization of this issue. The article outlines the type of individuals and gro…
The NGO Game. Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in the Balkans and Beyond
Since Tocqueville, citizen’s associations have often been hailed as sine qua non of democracy. Civil society groups and NGOs are widely believed to stimulate engagement and political socialisation
The Sage Handbook of Political Science
Source Agritrop Cirad (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/603489/)
The (not so) surprising longevity of identity politics: Contemporary challenges of the state-society compact in Central Eastern Europe
The article argues that across the East European region ongoing uncertainty about the nature of the state-society compact is central to continuous relevance of "national" in politics. This compact defines who owns the state and who is to benefits from its current form. Since postcommunist nation-state-building was as much about the exclusion of some residents from the political community as it was about limiting states' reliance on thick politica…
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