Joseph Rothschild Book Prize Honorable Mention Strategic Frames analyzes minority
policies in Estonia and Latvia following their independence from the Soviet Union. It weighs …

This paper analyzes the Estonian and Latvian policy-making process with regard to non-
citizens' right to vote in local elections. While in Estonia the right of all permanent residents …

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 …

This article addresses the question of how European integration shaped minority electoral
strategies, which constitute the primary form of political mobilization among minorities in …

The aim of the research presented in this article is to highlight differences in inter-ethnic
political relations on minority issues in Latvia and Estonia, and how the varied structures of …

In order to gain access to the EU, nations must be seen to implement formal instruments that
protect the rights of minorities. This book examines the ways in which these tools have …

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 …

Why do some ethnic nation-states committed to preferential treatment of the dominant nation
choose to accommodate their ethnic minorities in some realms? I argue that power struggles …

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 …

It is widely acknowledged that “Europeanization,” conceived as both the enlargement of the
European Union (EU) and the diffusion of European norms and practices, has had a …