Ligita Šarkutė

Vytautas Magnus University · Department of Public Administration

The article is based on the data of the 10th round of the European Social Survey (ESS) analysis and discusses the correlation between Lithuanian residents’ satisfaction with democracy and political participation, self-evaluation of political efficacy, social trust, trust in authorities and satisfaction with their performance, as well as sociodemogr...

There is a huge gap in research about the connection between political participation and perception of justice and fairness since few authors have analysed this phenomenon. The purpose of this article is to analyse the connection between political participation and people’s perception of fairness and justice, using a representative sample of the Eu...

Knygoje analizuojama kertinių demokratinio politinio gyvenimo institucijų – politinių partijų ir interesų grupių / organizacijų – sąveika. Partijų ir interesų grupių santykių analizė grindžiama klasikine amerikiečių politologo H. Lasswello politikos kaip proceso, kurio metu sprendžiama, „kas ką gauna, kada ir kaip“, samprata ir logika. Be Lietuvos...

This article analyses interest groups in the agricultural sector in Lithuania, and compares them with the rest of the population of interest groups across other sectors at the national level. The analysis is based on data from the International Comparative Interest Group Survey (CIGS). A survey of organizations representing various interests was c...

Abstract: The impact of government on citizens’ daily life is bigger than ever before. The extent to which people support governmental actions is related with their support of the whole political system. The scope of government varies across different states as well as people’s attitudes towards it also vary. The scope of government, according O B...

The new paradigm of innovative, sustainable and inclusive rural development calls for the search of new forms and approaches that might be applicable to explain the on-going transformations in the knowledge age. New rural policy stresses the focus on bottom-up approach, self-organization and cooperation between territorial government and local comm...

Straipsnyje pristatome Seimo posėdžių stenogramų tekstyną, parengtą specialiu formatu, tinkančiu įvairiems autorystės nustatymo tyrimams. Tekstyną sudaro apie 111 tūkstančių tekstų (24 milijonai žodžių), kurių kiekvienas atitinka vieną parlamentaro pasisakymą eilinės sesijos posėdžio metu bei apima 7 Lietuvos Respublikos Seimo kadencijas: nuo 1990...

This paper reports the first authorship at-tribution results based on the effect of the author set size using automatic computational methods for the Lithuanian language. The aim is to determine how fast authorship attribution results are deteriorating while the number of candidate authors is gradually increasing: i.e. starting from 3, going up to...

In this paper we report the first authorship attribution results for the Lithuanian language using Internet comments with a thousand of candidate authors. The task is complicated due to the following reasons: large number of candidate authors, extremely short non-normative texts, and problems associated with morphologically and vocabulary rich lang...

2008 m. Lietuvoje pradėjus vykdyti Europos socialinį tyrimą (angl. European Social Survey – ESS), jau yra įgyvendintos 4-oji, 5-oji ir 6-oji ESS bangos. Įgyvendinant sią bangą (įgyvendinta 2013 m.), itin daug dėmesio skiriama Lietuvos gyventojų asmeninei ir socialinei gerovei, socialinei atskirciai, religijai ir tapatybei. Europos socialinis tyrima...

This paper reports the first authorship attribution results based on the automatic computational methods for the Lithuanian language. Using supervised machine learning techniques we experimentally investigated the influence of different feature types (lexical, character, and syntactic) focusing on a few authors within three datasets, containing tra...

The empirical results of executive survey on public administration reform are presented covering reform trends, reform results, results oriented culture and coordination in Lithuanian public administration during fiscal crisis since 2008. The survey acting as a tool to monitor the development of public administration reforms allows identifying impo...

This article presents the results of qualitative comparative analysis of such causal factors of Lithuanian government’s stability as decision-making model, role of political parties, government ideology and parliamentary majority. The basic source of the research was the interviews with ministers who have served in different cabinets. The cabinets...

This article presents the results of qualitative comparative analysis of such causal factors of Lithuanian government's stability as decision-making model, role of political parties, government ideology and parliamentary majority. The basic source of the research was the interviews with ministers who have served in different cabinets. The cabinets...

Straipsnyje aptariama sprendimų priėmimo samprata, aprašomi sprendimų priėmimo proceso etapai, apribojimai bei supaprastinimo strategijos. Analizuojamos akademinės disciplinos, nagrinėjančios sprendimų priėmimą, aptariamos trys pagrindinės tyrimų tradicijos, kuriomis grindžiama sprendimų priėmimo teorija: racionaliojo sprendimų priėmimo, riboto rac...

Straipsnyje analizuojami vidiniai veiksniai, turėję ir turintys įtakos priimant sprendimus Lietuvos Respublikos vyriausybėse. Nagrinėjama kabinetinių vyriausybių, kurioms priskiriama ir Lietuvos Respublikos Vyriausybė, specifika. Pagal galios pasiskirstymą tarp ministro pirmininko ir ministrų bei tarp ministrų ir biurokratijos apibrėžiami 1990-2000...