Licia Cianetti is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. She is interested in how democracy works in ethno-culturally divided societies. She is working on the project "What happened to the multicultural city? Effects of nativism and austerity", funded by the Leverhulme Trust. She is the author of The Quality of Divided Democracies: Minority Inclusion, Exclusion and Representation in the New Europe (2019).

James Dawson is a Lecturer in Politics at Coventry University, UK. His research has focused on the challenges of democratisation in Central and Eastern Europe, with particular emphasis on the clash between liberal and ethnic nationalist ideas. His book Cultures of Democracy in Serbia and Bulgaria: How Ideas Shape Publics (2014) was awarded the BASEES George Blazyca Prize.

Seán Hanley is Associate Professor in Comparative Central and Eastern Europe Politics at UCL, UK. His published research covers topics such as party government and its alternatives, the rise of anti-establishment parties, and democratic backsliding in Central Europe. He has a special interest in Czech politics and is author of The New Right in the New Europe: Czech Transformation and Right-Wing Politics, 1989-2006 (2007).