Traditionally Lithuania's public finances are discussed in terms of tax burden and tax administration. Such issues as composition of tax revenues or the structure of public expenditure for some reasons are less atractive both for economists, journalists, politicians and general public at large. The purpose of this article is to fill this gap doing it in the political, cognitive and ideological context existing in our country. The subject is explored in the framework of methodological holism.
Traditionally Lithuania's public finances are discussed in terms of tax burden and tax administration. Such issues as composition of tax revenues or the structure of public expenditure for some reasons are less atractive both for economists, journalists, politicians and general public at large. The purpose of this article is to fill this gap doing it in the political, cognitive and ideological context existing in our country. The subject is explored in the framework of methodological holism.
The methodological guidelines are written for political science undergraduate students who under the study program, being the third-fourth year students are required to have two internships - introductory and qualification internships. This book presents students some key stages of the internship in detail: the organization of internship, the conduct of internship, the preparation of reports. In addition to the requirements, instructions and tips, the book presents for the students some examples of the required documents.
The methodological guidelines are written for political science undergraduate students who under the study program, being the third-fourth year students are required to have two internships - introductory and qualification internships. This book presents students some key stages of the internship in detail: the organization of internship, the conduct of internship, the preparation of reports. In addition to the requirements, instructions and tips, the book presents for the students some examples of the required documents.
The methodological guidelines are written for political science undergraduate students who under the study program, being the third-fourth year students are required to have two internships - introductory and qualification internships. This book presents students some key stages of the internship in detail: the organization of internship, the conduct of internship, the preparation of reports. In addition to the requirements, instructions and tips, the book presents for the students some examples of the required documents.
Scholarly literature analysis has been carried out to theoretically substantiate the interaction between public administration and public policy and highlight changes in the public administration paradigm. In the paper, a discourse is viewed as a wide presentation of public administration ideas. Since a discourse is not an isolated phenomenon, everything that has been noted, emphasized, expressed, summarized and is related to public administration is considered to be part of public administration discourse. Drawing on theoretical insights the paper deals with public administration discourse in the programs of the Lithuanian political parties: the Labour Party, the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, the Order and Justice Party and the Lithuanian Liberal Movement. Analysis of the content of the programs of the selected political parties has been carried out, its results have been evaluated and the main public administration paradigms in the programs of the political parties have been determined.
Scholarly literature analysis has been carried out to theoretically substantiate the interaction between public administration and public policy and highlight changes in the public administration paradigm. In the paper, a discourse is viewed as a wide presentation of public administration ideas. Since a discourse is not an isolated phenomenon, everything that has been noted, emphasized, expressed, summarized and is related to public administration is considered to be part of public administration discourse. Drawing on theoretical insights the paper deals with public administration discourse in the programs of the Lithuanian political parties: the Labour Party, the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, the Order and Justice Party and the Lithuanian Liberal Movement. Analysis of the content of the programs of the selected political parties has been carried out, its results have been evaluated and the main public administration paradigms in the programs of the political parties have been determined.
Thesis deals with political rituals in public city spaces extra focus lying on their theatrical and performative elements. First chapter of the thesis presents definition of political rituals. Political rituals are defined as secular, designed to gain or reconstruct power relations. Political rituals are also described as organized, taking part in specific environment on specific time, creating symbolical value for used objects and participants, not producing material value, repeated, purposeful activity. Separately are describes theatricality and performativity of public political rituals. After presenting theory examples are analyzed. Second part of thesis deals with state holidays. After showing that they can be regarded as political ritual, theatricality and performativity of February 16th, March 11th and July 6th are analyzed. Third part of the thesis goes on to analyze processions. Procession can be described as a genre. Using form of procession almost automatically makes an event ritualized. Further are analyzed processions that represent different political views and relations to official state politics: patriotic procession "For Homeland", Christian procession "For Life" and procession for Tax freedom day organized by Liberal and centre union. In order to have broader perspective on how aesthetics, performativity and politics interact, fourth part of the thesis deals with political performance art, which uses elements of ritual or is ritualized by repeating it. Chosen examples are "Sadam goes to heaven", "FLUXUS four weeks", "Pro-test laboratory". Thesis not only deals with term performativity, not too often used in Lithuanian theatre studies, but also analyses relations of politics and aesthetics. Theoretical tool, forms in first pat of the thesis can be further used to analyze theatricality and performativity of other public political rituals.
Thesis deals with political rituals in public city spaces extra focus lying on their theatrical and performative elements. First chapter of the thesis presents definition of political rituals. Political rituals are defined as secular, designed to gain or reconstruct power relations. Political rituals are also described as organized, taking part in specific environment on specific time, creating symbolical value for used objects and participants, not producing material value, repeated, purposeful activity. Separately are describes theatricality and performativity of public political rituals. After presenting theory examples are analyzed. Second part of thesis deals with state holidays. After showing that they can be regarded as political ritual, theatricality and performativity of February 16th, March 11th and July 6th are analyzed. Third part of the thesis goes on to analyze processions. Procession can be described as a genre. Using form of procession almost automatically makes an event ritualized. Further are analyzed processions that represent different political views and relations to official state politics: patriotic procession "For Homeland", Christian procession "For Life" and procession for Tax freedom day organized by Liberal and centre union. In order to have broader perspective on how aesthetics, performativity and politics interact, fourth part of the thesis deals with political performance art, which uses elements of ritual or is ritualized by repeating it. Chosen examples are "Sadam goes to heaven", "FLUXUS four weeks", "Pro-test laboratory". Thesis not only deals with term performativity, not too often used in Lithuanian theatre studies, but also analyses relations of politics and aesthetics. Theoretical tool, forms in first pat of the thesis can be further used to analyze theatricality and performativity of other public political rituals.
Thesis deals with political rituals in public city spaces extra focus lying on their theatrical and performative elements. First chapter of the thesis presents definition of political rituals. Political rituals are defined as secular, designed to gain or reconstruct power relations. Political rituals are also described as organized, taking part in specific environment on specific time, creating symbolical value for used objects and participants, not producing material value, repeated, purposeful activity. Separately are describes theatricality and performativity of public political rituals. After presenting theory examples are analyzed. Second part of thesis deals with state holidays. After showing that they can be regarded as political ritual, theatricality and performativity of February 16th, March 11th and July 6th are analyzed. Third part of the thesis goes on to analyze processions. Procession can be described as a genre. Using form of procession almost automatically makes an event ritualized. Further are analyzed processions that represent different political views and relations to official state politics: patriotic procession "For Homeland", Christian procession "For Life" and procession for Tax freedom day organized by Liberal and centre union. In order to have broader perspective on how aesthetics, performativity and politics interact, fourth part of the thesis deals with political performance art, which uses elements of ritual or is ritualized by repeating it. Chosen examples are "Sadam goes to heaven", "FLUXUS four weeks", "Pro-test laboratory". Thesis not only deals with term performativity, not too often used in Lithuanian theatre studies, but also analyses relations of politics and aesthetics. Theoretical tool, forms in first pat of the thesis can be further used to analyze theatricality and performativity of other public political rituals.
The goal of this article is to analyse the peculiarities of the application of comparative method in political science. The analysis focuses on the historical development of comparative research and major factors that have influenced this development, mainly, historical events, development of research techniques and advancement of the data storage and processing. The analysis covers investigation of various models of comparative research classification as well as the problems of sampling. The comparative method is frequently used in political and social research as it broadens the perspective and could improve understanding of social phenomena. Many methodological problems encountered by scientists earlier on still remain unsolved, while some new challenges have been encountered such as ethnocentrism, sampling issues and cultural biases. The major goal of this article is to promote the scientific discussions on the application of comparative method in the political science in Lithuanian language. ; Šiame straipsnyje nagrinėjami lyginamojo metodo panaudojimo politikos moksle savitumai. Trumpai apžvelgus lyginamųjų tyrimų vystymosi istoriją, analizuojami veiksniai, kurie turėjo įtakos tyrimų poreikiui ir plėtrai. Ypatingas dėmesys skiriamas lyginamųjų tyrimų klasifi kacijos analizei. Straipsnyje analizuojami keli lyginamųjų tyrimų klasifi kacijos modeliai, sukonstruoti remiantis skirtingu požiūriu į laiko ir erdvės parametrų svarbą. Taip pat analizuojama kiekybinė (tyrimo vienetų skaičiaus) klasifi kacija. Šio straipsnio tikslas – prisidėti prie lyginamosios politikos metodologijos analizės plėtojimo lietuvių kalba.
The concept of mediatization, which analyzes how the dominance of media shapes political processes, is becoming continuously more relevant as a more important role is being assigned to the media in the public sphere. Despite the relevance, there are not many defined methods of analysis of political mediatization. This article presents such a method, which is designed for analyzing political scandals. This method adopts the concept of mediatization as a metatheory and uses the Veto Players theory to structure the political sphere and scandals in a way that allows for their analysis. A qualitative content analysis of three cases of Lithuanian political scandals, based on this method, is also presented. In the discussed cases, the interaction between the political and media actors appears to be very close and mutual. Not only do politicians take the initiative in asking for the political responsibility of the actors in the scandalous situations that the media reveal, but they also initiate the distribution of such information to the media, seeking the desired change of the status quo or the legitimization of their decisions. This provides means for talking about the self-mediatization of political actors.
