Dr Licia Cianetti

Dr Licia Cianetti

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

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School of Government
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Licia Cianetti is an Associate Professor in Political Science and International Studies and the Deputy Director of Birmingham’s Centre for Elections, Democracy, Accountability & Representation (CEDAR). She researches processes of exclusion and inclusion in democratic policymaking and processes of institutional change. She is also interested in the theory and practice of regime transformations, particularly questions of democratic backsliding, autocratisation, and democratic resilience. She is the author of  (University of Michigan Press, 2019) and co-editor of  (Routledge, 2019). She is currently working on a new monograph provisionally entitled The Politics of Trying Again: Making Inclusive Institutions in European Cities.

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)

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Cianetti, L 2019, . University of Michigan Press.

Article

Cianetti, L, Del Panta, G & Owen, C 2025, '', Democratization.

Cianetti, L 2023, '', Journal of European Public Policy.

Cianetti, L & Hanley, S 2021, '', Journal of Democracy, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 66-80.

Cianetti, L 2020, '', Urban Studies.

Cianetti, L 2018, '', East European Politics.

Cianetti, L 2018, '', East European Politics.

Cianetti, L 2018, '', JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies.

Cianetti, L & Nakai, R 2016, '', Problems of Post-Communism , vol. 64, no. 5, pp. 276-290.

Cianetti, L 2015, '', Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.

Chapter

Hanley, S & Cianetti, L 2024, . in The Routledge Handbook of Autocratization. 1st edn, Routledge International Handbooks, Routledge, pp. 473-489.

Sikk, A & Cianetti, L 2015, . in Small States in the Modern World. Edward Elgar.

Digital or Visual Products

Cianetti, L, Diaphra (aka Biru), AF, Mbengue, G, Moledina, F & Strokins, A, , 2021, Digital or Visual Products. <>

Editorial

Cianetti, L & Lončar, J 2018, '', Nationalities Papers, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 197-201.

Review article

Cianetti, L 2017, '', Journal of Contemporary European Studies.