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Attitudes of Parliamentary Candidates towards the Politics of Memory in Post-Communist Lithuania
Full text linkThe paper dwells on the longitudinal data set of Lithuanian parliamentary candidates’ views and investigates the post-communist politics of memory. The analyzed surveys are conducted in 2008, 2012 and 2016. Several hypotheses regarding the impact of time, democratic consolidation and geopolitical challenges on the national level of the politics of memory are tested, and we examine differences among party families regarding the politics of memory. The list of dependent variables of this study includes the attitudes of the parliamentary candidates and their determination to implement lustration, ban the public display of Soviet symbols and implement the claim that Russia must compensate the damage inflicted on Lithuania during the Soviet occupation. The study reveals that the politics of memory remains a matter of contention shaped by the dynamic interaction of three kinds of logic: transitional (based on the need to mark a break from the previous regime), post-transitional (encouraged by expiring early transitional conventions and re-articulated geopolitical visions), and partisan (inspired by multi-party electoral competition)
Grilles d'analyse de l'élite économique post-soviétique
No full textA threefold change (economic reform, democratization and a redefinition of the state's role) characterizes the post-Soviet transition. The post-Soviet economic elite should be studied by using various approaches proposed by economists, political scientists and sociologists. The one best suited to current conditions is the institutional approach, which considers the elite to be made up of individuals holding strategic positions in the country's major economic organizations. This approach needs to be completed with "qualitative" analyses (for example, in terms of a "social project") if we are to better understand actors' strategies in the post-Soviet economy, which is paradoxically both fluid and rigid. Ultimately, a multidisciplinary inquiry is needed, since the subject of the post-Soviet economic elite cannot be separated from the political, economic and institutional processes now under way in the ex-USSR and in most of its former satellites.Un triple changement (réforme économique, démocratisation et redéfinition de l'État) caractérise la transition post-soviétique. L'élite économique post-soviétique doit être étudiée à la lumière des différentes approches proposées par les économistes, les politologues et les sociologues. La plus adaptée aux conditions actuelles est l'approche institutionnelle selon laquelle l'élite économique comporte des individus occupant des positions stratégiques au sein des organisations importantes de l'économie nationale. Il convient de compléter cette approche par des analyses d'ordre "qualitatif (par exemple, celle du "projet social") si l'on veut mieux comprendre les stratégies des agents dans le champ économique post-soviétique, qui associe de manière paradoxale fluidité et traits corporatistes. En définitive, c'est une recherche pluridisciplinaire qui s'impose, le thème de l'élite économique post-soviétique ne pouvant être dissocié des processus politiques, institutionnels et économiques en cours dans l'ex-U.R.S.S. et la plupart de ses anciens satellites.Matonyte Irmina. Grilles d'analyse de l'élite économique post-soviétique. In: Revue d'études comparatives Est-Ouest, vol. 29, 1998, n°1. pp. 97-119
Integration of Non EU National Scholars in Lithuanian Universities
No full textThe paper analyzes integration experience of foreign researchers (non EU nationals) in Lithuanian universities. The paper assesses openness and engagement of Lithuanian public institutions and universities towards highly skilled foreign specialists. The analytical framework distinguishes three levels of factors which contribute to the success of integration: macro level (state) factors such as social structure, institutional design and regulations, cultural attitudes and traditions; mezzo level (university) factors such as infra-structure, competences, organizational visions and expectations of the leadership and the staff and micro level (individual) factors such as personality traits, professional experience and family circumstances of the immigrant scholars.http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ppaa.10.1.230</jats:p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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