Jurga Bucaite-Vilke
Biographic Data
| ID | 1068709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jurga Bucaite-Vilke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jurga |
| FAMILY NAME | Bucaite-Vilke |
| SIGNATURE | BUCAITE-VILKE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vytautas Magnus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5049-3411 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Arčiau piliečių, ar arčiau rinkos? Lietuvos savivaldybių tarybų narių veiklos prioritetų vertinimas
Pastaraisiais dešimtmečiais diskusijos dėl vietos politikos svarbos tapo esminės, siekiant suvokti vietos demokratijos kokybę lemiančius pokyčius. Šiame straipsnyje nagrinėjama vietos politikų svarba demokratijos kokybei ir savivaldos veiklos prioritetų formavimui neoliberalios politikos kontekste. Teigiama, kad vietos politikai, būdami arčiausiai piliečių, gali reikšmingai prisidėti prie vietos demokratijos stiprinimo arba ją silpninti, priklaus…
Changing Gendered Attitudes Toward Childcare: Social-Economic Determinants of Understanding Family Roles Among Lithuanian Parents
The parental choices need more explanation on how the perceptions of family gender roles could explain the differences in parental satisfaction with childcare and domestic division and what social-economic factors determine their normative attitudes. In other words, the paper analyses how families’ attitudes to childcare division are related to their socioeconomic backgrounds and normative preferences on gender roles. The paper uses the represent…
Family Choices on Welfare and Territorial Disadvantages: The Perception of the Child Care Services Approach in Urban and Rural Areas
Although the research on social-economic and demographic inequities of parents and their approach to formal child care (early childhood education and care [ECEC] system) is increasing, the territorial effects on child care remain underresearched. In Lithuania, the importance of the accessibility and availability of formal child care services are highlighted by the political agenda. However, the residential location is not considered enough to exp…
Rethinking Suburban Governance in the CEE Region: A Comparison of Two Municipalities in Poland and Lithuania
In this article, we seek to analyse and compare the modalities of suburban governance in Polish and Lithuanian municipalities looking at the territorial development trends typical for the Central Eastern Europe region. The theoretical elaborations on suburban governance are evolving towards the analysis of constellations of diverse actors, institutions and processes that define the politics and design of suburban spaces. We assume that there are …
Interesų grupių dalyvavimas ir įsitraukimas vietos lygmeniu: Ar savivaldybių bendradarbiavimas gali būti demokratiškas
The article focuses on the question of whether the inter-municipal cooperation can be analyzed by referring to democratic representation and democratic legitimacy concepts. We focus on the democratic input, output, and throughput legitimacy dimenions that reveal how municipal cooperation arrangements deal with the problems of democratic deficit. The article offers a theoretical discussion on network governance that analyzes different interactions…
Territorial development in Lithuanian municipalities: A territorial capital approach
The concept of territorial capital describing the specificity of spatial socioeconomic differences in municipalities is underused in the Lithuanian academic discourse. The article focuses on different dimensions of territorial assets related to locally based resources including natural resources, socioeconomic dynamics, service provision infrastructure, and place-making initiatives. It also examines the question of the interrelatedness of differe…
Defining the Local Leadership Profile: What is the Best Mayor for Lithuanian Citizens
The article focuses on the changes in local political leadership and political identity emphasizing different dimensions of the social and political capital of the municipality mayor. The main objective is to reveal how different societal groups perceive the political, administrative and community experience of the mayor determining the complex profiles of local political leadership and role in local communities. The theoretical discussion is com…
Lithuanian men’s struggles with precarious life: Unemployment, working identities, and strategies of survival
Using semi-structured interviews with young unemployed Lithuanian men, this article examines three distinct male working identities associated with ways of coping with unemployment and a sense of precarity: “desperate conformists,” “liberated dreamers,” and men “lost in work transition.” The interviews demonstrate that unemployment stigmatizes men, particularly those with lesser professional and social competencies crucial to efficient participat…
Dvi skirtingos vietos demokratijos vizijos? Interesų atstovavimas, lyderystė ir gyventojų dalyvavimas savivaldoje
The article focuses on the changes in political leadership on local governance level emphasizing the attitudes and values of local residents towards different visions of local democratic participation. The main problematic issue discuses the changes in the local political leadership referring to the context of self-governance administrative reforms. It also attempts to grasp the normative symbolic changes in attitudes and values on civic empowerm…
Ar nedarbas riboja? Bendruomeniškumas, socialiniai paramos tinklai ir dalyvavimas viešajame gyvenime
Šiame straipsnyje bandoma atsakyti į klausimą, kaip socialinėje atskirtyje atsidūrusios visuomenės grupės naudojasi socialiniais paramos tinklais, siekdamos sumažinti neigiamą socialinės stigmatizacijos poveikį. Socialinių ryšių vaidmuo tokiuose socialinės atskirties procesuose kaip marginalizacija, skurdas, socialinė poliarizacija yra itin reikšmingas. Socialiniai tinklai leidžia minimizuoti socialinės izoliacijos, atskiriančios individą nuo sva…
Experience of Lithuanian migrants: The social construction of networks and identities
The article deals with the role of social networks in facilitating migration and maintaining ties of information, emotional support and financial assistance among emigrants’ host and origin countries. The aim of the study has been to analyze and identify how the emigrants’ social relationships and identities are constructed at the foundation of social networks, how the participation in networks shape the individual decision ofmigrants. The main a…
The construction of Lithuanian migrants’ professional career paths: Moving up and down career track
In this paper we analyse the professional career paths in migration, pointing out the construction of professional career as the modern pattern of social behaviour. The chosen theory of career construction provides the contextual approach to the analysis of career paths. The paper analyses transformations of the professional career path of 89 Lithuanian migrants in European countries. The analysis of the career paths of Lithuanianmigrants is perf…
Lithuanian men’s struggles with precarious life: Unemployment, working identities, and strategies of survival
Using semi-structured interviews with young unemployed Lithuanian men, this article examines three distinct male working identities associated with ways of coping with unemployment and a sense of precarity: “desperate conformists,” “liberated dreamers,” and men “lost in work transition.” The interviews demonstrate that unemployment stigmatizes men, particularly those with lesser professional and social competencies crucial to efficient participat…
Family Choices on Welfare and Territorial Disadvantages: The Perception of the Child Care Services Approach in Urban and Rural Areas
Although the research on social-economic and demographic inequities of parents and their approach to formal child care (early childhood education and care [ECEC] system) is increasing, the territorial effects on child care remain underresearched. In Lithuania, the importance of the accessibility and availability of formal child care services are highlighted by the political agenda. However, the residential location is not considered enough to exp…
Rethinking Suburban Governance in the CEE Region: A Comparison of Two Municipalities in Poland and Lithuania
In this article, we seek to analyse and compare the modalities of suburban governance in Polish and Lithuanian municipalities looking at the territorial development trends typical for the Central Eastern Europe region. The theoretical elaborations on suburban governance are evolving towards the analysis of constellations of diverse actors, institutions and processes that define the politics and design of suburban spaces. We assume that there are …
Experience of Lithuanian migrants: The social construction of networks and identities
The article deals with the role of social networks in facilitating migration and maintaining ties of information, emotional support and financial assistance among emigrants’ host and origin countries. The aim of the study has been to analyze and identify how the emigrants’ social relationships and identities are constructed at the foundation of social networks, how the participation in networks shape the individual decision ofmigrants. The main a…
The construction of Lithuanian migrants’ professional career paths: Moving up and down career track
In this paper we analyse the professional career paths in migration, pointing out the construction of professional career as the modern pattern of social behaviour. The chosen theory of career construction provides the contextual approach to the analysis of career paths. The paper analyses transformations of the professional career path of 89 Lithuanian migrants in European countries. The analysis of the career paths of Lithuanianmigrants is perf…
Ar nedarbas riboja? Bendruomeniškumas, socialiniai paramos tinklai ir dalyvavimas viešajame gyvenime
Šiame straipsnyje bandoma atsakyti į klausimą, kaip socialinėje atskirtyje atsidūrusios visuomenės grupės naudojasi socialiniais paramos tinklais, siekdamos sumažinti neigiamą socialinės stigmatizacijos poveikį. Socialinių ryšių vaidmuo tokiuose socialinės atskirties procesuose kaip marginalizacija, skurdas, socialinė poliarizacija yra itin reikšmingas. Socialiniai tinklai leidžia minimizuoti socialinės izoliacijos, atskiriančios individą nuo sva…
Lithuanian men’s struggles with precarious life: Unemployment, working identities, and strategies of survival
Using semi-structured interviews with young unemployed Lithuanian men, this article examines three distinct male working identities associated with ways of coping with unemployment and a sense of precarity: “desperate conformists,” “liberated dreamers,” and men “lost in work transition.” The interviews demonstrate that unemployment stigmatizes men, particularly those with lesser professional and social competencies crucial to efficient participat…
Dvi skirtingos vietos demokratijos vizijos? Interesų atstovavimas, lyderystė ir gyventojų dalyvavimas savivaldoje
The article focuses on the changes in political leadership on local governance level emphasizing the attitudes and values of local residents towards different visions of local democratic participation. The main problematic issue discuses the changes in the local political leadership referring to the context of self-governance administrative reforms. It also attempts to grasp the normative symbolic changes in attitudes and values on civic empowerm…
Defining the Local Leadership Profile: What is the Best Mayor for Lithuanian Citizens
The article focuses on the changes in local political leadership and political identity emphasizing different dimensions of the social and political capital of the municipality mayor. The main objective is to reveal how different societal groups perceive the political, administrative and community experience of the mayor determining the complex profiles of local political leadership and role in local communities. The theoretical discussion is com…
Interesų grupių dalyvavimas ir įsitraukimas vietos lygmeniu: Ar savivaldybių bendradarbiavimas gali būti demokratiškas
The article focuses on the question of whether the inter-municipal cooperation can be analyzed by referring to democratic representation and democratic legitimacy concepts. We focus on the democratic input, output, and throughput legitimacy dimenions that reveal how municipal cooperation arrangements deal with the problems of democratic deficit. The article offers a theoretical discussion on network governance that analyzes different interactions…
Territorial development in Lithuanian municipalities: A territorial capital approach
The concept of territorial capital describing the specificity of spatial socioeconomic differences in municipalities is underused in the Lithuanian academic discourse. The article focuses on different dimensions of territorial assets related to locally based resources including natural resources, socioeconomic dynamics, service provision infrastructure, and place-making initiatives. It also examines the question of the interrelatedness of differe…
Rethinking Suburban Governance in the CEE Region: A Comparison of Two Municipalities in Poland and Lithuania
In this article, we seek to analyse and compare the modalities of suburban governance in Polish and Lithuanian municipalities looking at the territorial development trends typical for the Central Eastern Europe region. The theoretical elaborations on suburban governance are evolving towards the analysis of constellations of diverse actors, institutions and processes that define the politics and design of suburban spaces. We assume that there are …
Family Choices on Welfare and Territorial Disadvantages: The Perception of the Child Care Services Approach in Urban and Rural Areas
Although the research on social-economic and demographic inequities of parents and their approach to formal child care (early childhood education and care [ECEC] system) is increasing, the territorial effects on child care remain underresearched. In Lithuania, the importance of the accessibility and availability of formal child care services are highlighted by the political agenda. However, the residential location is not considered enough to exp…
Changing Gendered Attitudes Toward Childcare: Social-Economic Determinants of Understanding Family Roles Among Lithuanian Parents
The parental choices need more explanation on how the perceptions of family gender roles could explain the differences in parental satisfaction with childcare and domestic division and what social-economic factors determine their normative attitudes. In other words, the paper analyses how families’ attitudes to childcare division are related to their socioeconomic backgrounds and normative preferences on gender roles. The paper uses the represent…
Arčiau piliečių, ar arčiau rinkos? Lietuvos savivaldybių tarybų narių veiklos prioritetų vertinimas
Pastaraisiais dešimtmečiais diskusijos dėl vietos politikos svarbos tapo esminės, siekiant suvokti vietos demokratijos kokybę lemiančius pokyčius. Šiame straipsnyje nagrinėjama vietos politikų svarba demokratijos kokybei ir savivaldos veiklos prioritetų formavimui neoliberalios politikos kontekste. Teigiama, kad vietos politikai, būdami arčiausiai piliečių, gali reikšmingai prisidėti prie vietos demokratijos stiprinimo arba ją silpninti, priklaus…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Lithuanian (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Demographic economics (3 works)