Critical Trust in European Institutions

Cianetti, Licia; Nakai, Ryo

doi:10.1080/10758216.2016.1237292

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“…Consequently, the electorate's confidence in the ability of their representatives to translate popular concerns into policy has plummeted. In the past, citizens' endorsement of democratic principles (Duvold and Berglund 2014), a market economy (Cianetti 2018), individual liberties (Cianetti and Nakai 2017), and ethnonational state-building (Ījabs 2016; Kaprāns and Mieriņa 2019) have been used to predict political participation individually, but not in combination with one another. In the analysis that follows, we draw these discrete observations together.…”

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Political dejection in a divided society: a challenge for Latvia’s democracy?

Agarin

Nakai

2021

Journal of Baltic Studies

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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 among the citizenry. Public survey data shows that many voters believe their concerns have been neglected by elected representatives, who have fixed their attention on ethnopolitical issues. While we see no demonstrable correlation between ethnicity and levels of political dejection, ethnonational politics explains unstable voter-representative relations and electoral volatility during the Saeima elections from 2010-2018. These unanticipated effects of nation-state building on Latvia's electoral politics invite a rethinking of the relationship between voters and their elected representatives in democratically consolidated, yet divided nations.

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Political dejection in a divided society: a challenge for Latvia’s democracy?

Agarin

Nakai

2021

Journal of Baltic Studies

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“…On a political level, one reason these divisions continue to prevail (Lindeman and Saar 2011, 84) are perceptions amongst the Estonian elite of Russophones’ potential for disloyalty to the state (Agarin 2013, 343). According to Agarin (2013, 331, 343), such attitudes mean Russian-speaking elites in Estonia are often discouraged from participating in political decision-making, fostering a sense of disaffection with political systems and leading to low levels of political participation amongst Russophone Estonians in general (Cianetti and Nakai 2017, 284). This political indifference may partly result from Russian-speakers generally occupying lower socioeconomic status than ethnic Estonians, but may also be because, having arrived in Estonia during separate “waves of immigration” during the Soviet period, they lack an inherently homogeneous sense of identity (Cianetti and Nakai 2017, 284).…”

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Understanding Russophone Estonian Identity Through Popular Culture: An Analysis of Hip-Hop Hit “für Oksana”

Cole

2022

Nationalities Papers

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Since emerging in the early 1990s, Estonian hip-hop has developed in line with other cultural and artistic projects in the country, reflecting attempts to foster a homogeneous society, yet ultimately cultivating one where diversity and multiculturalism prevail. As a genre where minority groups are frequently presented as “authentic,” hip-hop and its visual and performative manifestations provide a valuable platform to examine expressions of identity. To this end, several Estonian hip-hop musicians have explored aspects of being “post-Soviet” in contradistinction to official hegemonic discourses, which outright reject the Soviet past and emphasize titular ethnicity as a cornerstone of national identity. This article uses Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Multi-Modal Discourse Analysis (MMDA) to examine the lyrics and accompanying video of popular hip-hop song “für Oksana” by “Nublu featuring Gameboy Tetris.” Doing so highlights how the song’s basic narrative acts as a metaphor for experiences of integration processes between ethnic Estonians and Russophones since Estonian independence. I argue that through a combination of linguistic and cultural codeswitching, “für Oksana” constitutes an expression, performance, and negotiation of Russophone Estonian identity from both insider and outsider perspectives, emphasizing the need to understand Russophone Estonians as more than simply “Russians who live in Estonia.”

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Diverting Linguistic Diversity: The Politics of Multilingualism in the European Parliament

Mos

2020

Multilingualism and Politics

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Critical Trust in European Institutions

Cited by 14 publications

References 32 publications

Political dejection in a divided society: a challenge for Latvia’s democracy?

Political dejection in a divided society: a challenge for Latvia’s democracy?

Understanding Russophone Estonian Identity Through Popular Culture: An Analysis of Hip-Hop Hit “für Oksana”

Diverting Linguistic Diversity: The Politics of Multilingualism in the European Parliament

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