Licia Cianetti
Biographic Data
| ID | 4376483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Licia Cianetti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Licia |
| FAMILY NAME | Cianetti |
| SIGNATURE | CIANETTI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7532-3101 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 199 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Democratic resilience and re-democratisation
Almost two decades into the current wave of autocratisation, regime scholars have been turning their attention to the potential for democracies to resist mounting authoritarian pressures and for democratic norms and institution to be restored after a period of decline. This article proposes a way of putting order into this emergent, and as yet fragmented, wave of scholarship on democratic resilience and re-democratisation. It advances three key r…
What is a “regime”? Three definitions and their implications for the future of regime studies
This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Here we go again! Repetition and the Politics of Inclusive Institutional Reform
This article introduces repetition as a sui generis temporal pattern that is central to the politics of inclusive institutional reform. Pushed by crises or leadership changes, inclusive reform initiatives spring up in moments of high salience only to die back again and be relaunched later, in a seemingly endless cycle. Drawing from public policy, historical and feminist institutionalist scholarships and the in-depth case studies of Birmingham and…
The End of the Backsliding Paradigm
Debates about democratic decline are now dominated by the notion that many democracies might be undergoing a process described as democratic backsliding. While the concept can play its part, the emergence of a backsliding paradigm risks reproducing, in reverse, the intellectual constraints of the transition paradigm of the 1990s, famously critiqued by Thomas Carothers. The complex, halting trajectories of troubled democracies today may be hidden …
Rethinking ‘Democratic Backsliding’ in Central and Eastern Europe
Rethinking 'Democratic Backsliding' in Central and Eastern Europe
Consolidated technocratic and ethnic hollowness, but no backsliding
This article contributes to the growing debate on democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), by expanding on Béla Greskovits’s distinction between backsliding and hollowness, suggesting ways to broaden and specify the concept of hollowness, and discussing the relationship between hollowness and backsliding. Estonia and Latvia provide illustrations of two stable democracies, which nevertheless have consolidated tendencies for an e…
Consolidated technocratic and ethnic hollowness, but no backsliding
Governing the multicultural city: Europe’s ‘great urban expectations’ facing austerity and resurgent nativism
This article analyses European discourses on ‘optimal’ urban inclusion policies, as they are embodied in EU-sponsored city networking initiatives. Drawing from the scholarships on multiculturalism and urban austerity, it builds an inclusion agendas matrix that identifies four ideal-typical agendas for ethnic and racial inclusion: multicultural, diversity inclusion, community cohesion and neoliberalised diversity. It identifies a shift from group-…
Representation of minorities: Perspectives and challenges
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Consolidated technocratic and ethnic hollowness, but no backsliding: Reassessing Europeanisation in Estonia and Latvia
This article contributes to the growing debate on democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), by expanding on Béla Greskovits's distinction between backsliding and hollowness, suggesting ways to broaden and specify the concept of hollowness, and discussing the relationship between hollowness and backsliding. Estonia and Latvia provide illustrations of two stable democracies, which nevertheless have consolidated tendencies for an e…
Rethinking “democratic backsliding” in Central and Eastern Europe – looking beyond Hungary and Poland
This essay introduces contributions to a special issue of East European Politics on “Rethinking democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe”, which seeks to expand the study of democratic regression in CEE beyond the paradigmatic cases of Hungary and Poland. Reviewing these contributions, we identify several directions for research: 1) the need to critique “democratic backsliding”, not simply as a label, but also as an assumed regional t…
Trickle‐Down Social Inclusion: The EU Minorities Agenda in Times of Crisis
This article investigates the minority dimension of EU social policy and how the conceptualization of ethnic minorities' socio‐economic inclusion has evolved over time. Three findings are drawn from the close analysis of overlapping EU agendas on social inclusion and minority inclusion. First, although there are no comprehensive data on European minorities' socio‐economic condition, significant evidence has been collected at EU‐level that minorit…
Russian-speakers in Post-Soviet Latvia
Ammon Cheskin’s new book on Latvia’s Russian-speaking community provides a nuanced, balanced and – something perhaps more difficult to come about – optimistic assessment of the ways in which this g
Critical Trust in European Institutions: The Case of the Russian-Speaking Minorities in Estonia and Latvia
This article looks at Estonia and Latvia to investigate how minority activists understand and respond to changing opportunity structures at the European level after their countries joined the European Union and conditionalities pressures faded. Using a combined quantitative–qualitative approach, we show that minority activists have no illusions about the EU’s capacity (and willingness) to intervene in their favor, but at the same time they are no…
Integrating Minorities in Times of Crisis: Issues of Displacement in the Estonian and Latvian Integration Programs
Since the early 2000s, Estonia and Latvia have adopted Integration Programs aimed at dealing with issues concerning their large Russian-speaking minorities. In both cases, the meaning of “integration”—originally meant to primarily indicate the Russian speakers' route to becoming part of the Estonian and Latvian societies—was redefined to include a socioeconomic dimension. This article explores the intersection between the socioeconomic and ethnic…
Representing minorities in the city. Education policies and minority incorporation in the capital cities of Estonia and Latvia
This article explores the relationship between minority city-level and state-level political representations through the analysis of the contested implementation of state education policies in Tallinn and Riga. Referring to the US debate on this issue, the article asks what role minority incorporation into city-level power structures can play for its substantive representation. The comparison between Tallinn and Riga reveals two potential answers…
Rethinking “democratic backsliding” in Central and Eastern Europe – looking beyond Hungary and Poland
This essay introduces contributions to a special issue of East European Politics on “Rethinking democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe”, which seeks to expand the study of democratic regression in CEE beyond the paradigmatic cases of Hungary and Poland. Reviewing these contributions, we identify several directions for research: 1) the need to critique “democratic backsliding”, not simply as a label, but also as an assumed regional t…
The End of the Backsliding Paradigm
Debates about democratic decline are now dominated by the notion that many democracies might be undergoing a process described as democratic backsliding. While the concept can play its part, the emergence of a backsliding paradigm risks reproducing, in reverse, the intellectual constraints of the transition paradigm of the 1990s, famously critiqued by Thomas Carothers. The complex, halting trajectories of troubled democracies today may be hidden …
Consolidated technocratic and ethnic hollowness, but no backsliding: Reassessing Europeanisation in Estonia and Latvia
This article contributes to the growing debate on democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), by expanding on Béla Greskovits's distinction between backsliding and hollowness, suggesting ways to broaden and specify the concept of hollowness, and discussing the relationship between hollowness and backsliding. Estonia and Latvia provide illustrations of two stable democracies, which nevertheless have consolidated tendencies for an e…
Trickle‐Down Social Inclusion: The EU Minorities Agenda in Times of Crisis
This article investigates the minority dimension of EU social policy and how the conceptualization of ethnic minorities' socio‐economic inclusion has evolved over time. Three findings are drawn from the close analysis of overlapping EU agendas on social inclusion and minority inclusion. First, although there are no comprehensive data on European minorities' socio‐economic condition, significant evidence has been collected at EU‐level that minorit…
Critical Trust in European Institutions: The Case of the Russian-Speaking Minorities in Estonia and Latvia
This article looks at Estonia and Latvia to investigate how minority activists understand and respond to changing opportunity structures at the European level after their countries joined the European Union and conditionalities pressures faded. Using a combined quantitative–qualitative approach, we show that minority activists have no illusions about the EU’s capacity (and willingness) to intervene in their favor, but at the same time they are no…
Integrating Minorities in Times of Crisis: Issues of Displacement in the Estonian and Latvian Integration Programs
Since the early 2000s, Estonia and Latvia have adopted Integration Programs aimed at dealing with issues concerning their large Russian-speaking minorities. In both cases, the meaning of “integration”—originally meant to primarily indicate the Russian speakers' route to becoming part of the Estonian and Latvian societies—was redefined to include a socioeconomic dimension. This article explores the intersection between the socioeconomic and ethnic…
Governing the multicultural city: Europe’s ‘great urban expectations’ facing austerity and resurgent nativism
This article analyses European discourses on ‘optimal’ urban inclusion policies, as they are embodied in EU-sponsored city networking initiatives. Drawing from the scholarships on multiculturalism and urban austerity, it builds an inclusion agendas matrix that identifies four ideal-typical agendas for ethnic and racial inclusion: multicultural, diversity inclusion, community cohesion and neoliberalised diversity. It identifies a shift from group-…
What is a “regime”? Three definitions and their implications for the future of regime studies
This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Here we go again! Repetition and the Politics of Inclusive Institutional Reform
This article introduces repetition as a sui generis temporal pattern that is central to the politics of inclusive institutional reform. Pushed by crises or leadership changes, inclusive reform initiatives spring up in moments of high salience only to die back again and be relaunched later, in a seemingly endless cycle. Drawing from public policy, historical and feminist institutionalist scholarships and the in-depth case studies of Birmingham and…
Representing minorities in the city. Education policies and minority incorporation in the capital cities of Estonia and Latvia
This article explores the relationship between minority city-level and state-level political representations through the analysis of the contested implementation of state education policies in Tallinn and Riga. Referring to the US debate on this issue, the article asks what role minority incorporation into city-level power structures can play for its substantive representation. The comparison between Tallinn and Riga reveals two potential answers…
Representation of minorities: Perspectives and challenges
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
Representing minorities in the city. Education policies and minority incorporation in the capital cities of Estonia and Latvia
This article explores the relationship between minority city-level and state-level political representations through the analysis of the contested implementation of state education policies in Tallinn and Riga. Referring to the US debate on this issue, the article asks what role minority incorporation into city-level power structures can play for its substantive representation. The comparison between Tallinn and Riga reveals two potential answers…
Integrating Minorities in Times of Crisis: Issues of Displacement in the Estonian and Latvian Integration Programs
Since the early 2000s, Estonia and Latvia have adopted Integration Programs aimed at dealing with issues concerning their large Russian-speaking minorities. In both cases, the meaning of “integration”—originally meant to primarily indicate the Russian speakers' route to becoming part of the Estonian and Latvian societies—was redefined to include a socioeconomic dimension. This article explores the intersection between the socioeconomic and ethnic…
Russian-speakers in Post-Soviet Latvia
Ammon Cheskin’s new book on Latvia’s Russian-speaking community provides a nuanced, balanced and – something perhaps more difficult to come about – optimistic assessment of the ways in which this g
Critical Trust in European Institutions: The Case of the Russian-Speaking Minorities in Estonia and Latvia
This article looks at Estonia and Latvia to investigate how minority activists understand and respond to changing opportunity structures at the European level after their countries joined the European Union and conditionalities pressures faded. Using a combined quantitative–qualitative approach, we show that minority activists have no illusions about the EU’s capacity (and willingness) to intervene in their favor, but at the same time they are no…
Representation of minorities: Perspectives and challenges
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
Consolidated technocratic and ethnic hollowness, but no backsliding: Reassessing Europeanisation in Estonia and Latvia
This article contributes to the growing debate on democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), by expanding on Béla Greskovits's distinction between backsliding and hollowness, suggesting ways to broaden and specify the concept of hollowness, and discussing the relationship between hollowness and backsliding. Estonia and Latvia provide illustrations of two stable democracies, which nevertheless have consolidated tendencies for an e…
Rethinking “democratic backsliding” in Central and Eastern Europe – looking beyond Hungary and Poland
This essay introduces contributions to a special issue of East European Politics on “Rethinking democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe”, which seeks to expand the study of democratic regression in CEE beyond the paradigmatic cases of Hungary and Poland. Reviewing these contributions, we identify several directions for research: 1) the need to critique “democratic backsliding”, not simply as a label, but also as an assumed regional t…
Trickle‐Down Social Inclusion: The EU Minorities Agenda in Times of Crisis
This article investigates the minority dimension of EU social policy and how the conceptualization of ethnic minorities' socio‐economic inclusion has evolved over time. Three findings are drawn from the close analysis of overlapping EU agendas on social inclusion and minority inclusion. First, although there are no comprehensive data on European minorities' socio‐economic condition, significant evidence has been collected at EU‐level that minorit…
Rethinking ‘Democratic Backsliding’ in Central and Eastern Europe
Rethinking 'Democratic Backsliding' in Central and Eastern Europe
Consolidated technocratic and ethnic hollowness, but no backsliding
This article contributes to the growing debate on democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), by expanding on Béla Greskovits’s distinction between backsliding and hollowness, suggesting ways to broaden and specify the concept of hollowness, and discussing the relationship between hollowness and backsliding. Estonia and Latvia provide illustrations of two stable democracies, which nevertheless have consolidated tendencies for an e…
Consolidated technocratic and ethnic hollowness, but no backsliding
Governing the multicultural city: Europe’s ‘great urban expectations’ facing austerity and resurgent nativism
This article analyses European discourses on ‘optimal’ urban inclusion policies, as they are embodied in EU-sponsored city networking initiatives. Drawing from the scholarships on multiculturalism and urban austerity, it builds an inclusion agendas matrix that identifies four ideal-typical agendas for ethnic and racial inclusion: multicultural, diversity inclusion, community cohesion and neoliberalised diversity. It identifies a shift from group-…
The End of the Backsliding Paradigm
Debates about democratic decline are now dominated by the notion that many democracies might be undergoing a process described as democratic backsliding. While the concept can play its part, the emergence of a backsliding paradigm risks reproducing, in reverse, the intellectual constraints of the transition paradigm of the 1990s, famously critiqued by Thomas Carothers. The complex, halting trajectories of troubled democracies today may be hidden …
Here we go again! Repetition and the Politics of Inclusive Institutional Reform
This article introduces repetition as a sui generis temporal pattern that is central to the politics of inclusive institutional reform. Pushed by crises or leadership changes, inclusive reform initiatives spring up in moments of high salience only to die back again and be relaunched later, in a seemingly endless cycle. Drawing from public policy, historical and feminist institutionalist scholarships and the in-depth case studies of Birmingham and…
What is a “regime”? Three definitions and their implications for the future of regime studies
This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Democratic resilience and re-democratisation
Almost two decades into the current wave of autocratisation, regime scholars have been turning their attention to the potential for democracies to resist mounting authoritarian pressures and for democratic norms and institution to be restored after a period of decline. This article proposes a way of putting order into this emergent, and as yet fragmented, wave of scholarship on democratic resilience and re-democratisation. It advances three key r…
Political science (15 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (8 works) · Democracy (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Ethnic group (6 works)