Dr Licia Cianetti

Department of Political Science and International Studies
Lecturer in Political Science and International Studies
Deputy Director of the Centre for Elections, Democracy, Accountability and Representation (CEDAR)

Contact details

Email: l.cianetti@bham.ac.uk

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Address: Department of Political Science and International Studies
School of Government
Muirhead Tower
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham,
B15 2TT, United Kingdom

Licia Cianetti is Lecturer in Political Science and International Studies and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, and the Deputy Director of Birmingham’s Centre for Elections, Democracy, Accountability & Representation (CEDAR). Her research focuses on questions of inclusion and exclusion in democratic policymaking, at national and local levels. She is an area expert in Central and Eastern Europe, and she is also interested in interdisciplinary methodological innovation, especially between Politics and Arts. She is the author of The Quality of Divided Democracies: Minority Inclusion, Exclusion and Representation in the New Europe (University of Michigan Press, 2019) and co-editor of Rethinking 'Democratic Backsliding' in Central and Eastern Europe (Routledge, 2019). She is currently working on a new monograph on Making Inclusive Institutions: Change, Crisis and Policymaking in Europe's Multicultural Cities. Her related artist-academic multimedia collaboration can be accessed at www.multiculturalcities.com.

Qualifications

PhD in Politics, University College London – School of Slavonic and East European Studies
MA in Politics, Security and Integration, University College London – School of Slavonic and East European Studies
BA in International Studies, University of Florence, Italy

Biography

Licia Cianetti is a comparative political scientist, interested in democracy, minority politics, urban studies, and public policy. Before joining POLSIS she held teaching and research positions at Royal Holloway University of London's Department of Politics and International Relations (UK), the University of Coimbra's Centre for Social Studies (Portugal), and Canterbury Christ Church University (UK). She holds a PhD from University College London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

Teaching

Challenges to Liberal Democracy in Europe

Research

Licia Cianetti's research straddles the fields of democracy studies, minority politics, urban studies, and public policy, with a focus on policymaking and institutional change. She is particularly interested in:

Democracy and policymaking in ethnoculturally diverse settings (nations and cities)
(Un)democratic change and democratic backsliding, particularly how patterns of inclusion and exclusion in democracies are sustained, challenged, and changed over time
Central and Eastern Europe
Qualitative and interdisciplinary methods (espacially Politics and Arts)