Irmina Matonytė
Biographic Data
| ID | 4165077 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irmina Matonytė |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irmina |
| FAMILY NAME | Matonytė |
| SIGNATURE | MATONYTĖ I |
| AFFILIATIONS | General Jonas Žemaitis military academy of Lithuania |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8747-4716 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
State Violence and Pains of Punishment
State violence against Belarusian women involved in protest activities after the fraudulent presidential election in 2020 and onward has been unprecedented in the country’s history. Women’s activism has challenged the patriarchal authoritarian regime, which was ill-prepared to deal with women. However, after a short period of adaptation by the repressive institutions, women became their “special clients.” With reference to gender-sensitive academ…
Baltic States’ EU membership
The article assesses the EU membership of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with a special focus on their attempts, already as EU members to change their relations with Russia, which remains their 'significant Other'. We employ the discourse-historical analysis and focus on the evolution of the Baltic strategic discourse towards three themes, particularly contested by Russia, including the domestic interethnic issues, politics of memory and the eleme…
Attitudes of Parliamentary Candidates towards the Politics of Memory in Post-Communist Lithuania
The 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.…
Stakeholder collaboration in long‐term care of older people in Lithuania
Demographic situation, changes in the role of women in society and growing demand for long-term care (LTC) of older people have challenged the ability to meet the growing LTC needs in most developed countries. In countries where responsibility for LTC is still largely laid on families, it is, however, even more critical and calls for improvements in formal LTC systems. More intensive stakeholder collaboration in LTC policy development, organising…
Facing past, present, and future
This article investigates the role of historical beliefs and experiences in threat perception. Drawing on the results of a representative survey in Lithuania, it demonstrates a link between public beliefs about the Soviet period and public assessments of the likelihood of Russian military invasion, NATO disintegration, and diminishing levels of national security. Additionally, the study places historical beliefs within a tapestry of other theoret…
Legacies of State Socialism
The elites of Western Europe prefer social security for all citizens as the major aim of the EU, while the preference of Central and Eastern European elites is for a more globally competitive European economy. This disparity between elite preferences may be accounted for by the distinct electorates and elites’ responsive strategic calculations, or by the process of socialisation Central and Eastern European elites undergo during exposure to the E…
Drivers of Euroenthusiasm of National Political Elites
Undeniably, the economic crisis of 2008 was a critical juncture and a stress test for the EU and the Europeanness of its populations and elites. The crisis therefore offers an appropriate research setting for addressing two major research questions. In the following paragraphs, we first question how optimistic and unified the national political elites are towards the EU after the economic crisis of 2008. Second, we investigate which factors shape…
Grėsmių Visuomenės Gerovei Suvokimas
Atsižvelgdami į nacionalinio saugumo, rizikos visuomenės ir žmogaus socialinės raidos sampratas, analizuojame grėsmes visuomenės gerovei. Analizėje remiamės socialinio konstruktyvizmo sąvoka ir Lietuvos gyventojų reprezentatyvios apklausos (vykdytos „Vilmorus“ 2016 m. pavasarį, N = 1 004) duomenimis. Savo tyrime susiduriame su visapusiškos visuomenės gerovės samprata, kuri ignoruoja tai, kad atskiros grėsmių sritys gali daryti skirtingą poveik…
The thematic triangle of the politics of memory in new post-Soviet democracies
The article is aimed at building a theoretical framework for an empirical analysis of the politics of memory in a new post-Soviet democracy. We elaborate on the concept of new democracy and highlight that in late post-Soviet countries it might be defined through three interrelated variables of trustworthy institution building, promotion of civil rights, and consistent foreign policy. We refine the concept of the politics of memory underlining the…
Tarptautinis Seminaras „politikos Mokslų Raida Rytų Ir Vidurio Europoje“
...
Elitų Europa
In this article we analyze the background and extent of the Europeanness of political and economic elites in the EU member states. The focus on the elites is based on the premise that European unification is still largely driven by the national elites of the EU member states. Europeanness of the elites is defined and operationalised along the lines of emotive, cognitive-evaluative, and projective dimensions. The emotive dimension is operationaliz…
The Elites’ Games in the Field of Memory
The issue of memory has become an increasingly important analytical category for historians, sociologists, cultural theorists, marketing managers and political scientists. Some scholars have gone so far as to claim that memory is the new paradigm of history, overpowering and restructuring other frames of reference like class and gender (Winter, 2000). The fall of Communism and its ensuing social transformations are major historical events that fu…
Political reconsideration of the Soviet past
Different political elite groups of post-communist Lithuania offer different accounts of the Soviet past. Even twenty years later, after the collapse of communism Lithuanian politicians (with the exception of certain conservative anti-nostalgic leaders allied with some populists) still do not have a unified and coherent view on the Soviet political and social practices, truths, and methods. However, conservatives are very consistent in their rest…
Išorės grėsmės Europos vienybei
One of the important constituents of common identity is a perception of the same external others as threats. Therefore, European identity construction should be grounded in similar perceptions of threats and European elites – a group having the most important influence on the construction of the common European identity – should share similar perceptions of these threats. In this study elites’ perception of 3 potential external threats to the coh…
Threat Perception and European Identity Building
Europinės ir tautinės tapatybės kriterijai elito nariųpožiūriu
The article is based on the data from the 'IntUne' project survey of elites carried out in spring of 2007 in 15 European Union countries (N= 1780). The Lithuanian, Polish and French elites' samples, analyzed in depth, have N= 120. The aim of the study is to assess the importance of selected criteria for elites' definition of a true 'national' and of a true 'European'. The theoretical framework of the article is based on the dichotomy of national …
Parliamentary elites as a democratic thermometer
This article assesses how the character of emerging legislative elites conforms to the broader patterns of post-communist social transformation by comparing Estonia, Lithuania and Moldova. We argue that the pace and direction of change among MPs has been significantly shaped by the nature of regime change in each country. We first address the issue of pace and scope of elite replacement. Second, we examine whether and to what extent, over time, c…
Why the Notion of Social Justice is Quasi-Absent from the Public Discourse in Post-Communist Lithuania
This article discusses the paradoxical absence of social justice (both as a feature of political discourse and in terms of policy-making) in post-communist Lithuania. It addresses the question of how the politically successful Social Democratic Party has been able to function without proclaiming social democratic values and implementing social democratic policies. Here it would appear that supply of and demand for social justice is reduced by the…
Socialinis kapitalas
Social capital is a term, which is widely used in social sciences today. The concept has been coined by the French philosopher and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and popularized by the American political scientist Robert Putnam. However, the two authors talk of rather different phenomena while using the same term; they assign different importance (cause-effect) to different components and events of the social life; they draw rather dissimilar recomm…
Politika ir moters karjera
On the basis of qualitative research (over 20 semistructured interviews) study concerning interrelations between women's career and political environment, political-cultural norms as well as organizational situations and factors has been carried out. The main assumption is that career associates a person and the public sphere, reflects personal self-realization in society, community (career here is understood as personal trajectory to socially im…
L'évolution des orientations axiologiques de l'élite économique post-communiste en Lituanie, 1999-2000
II y a dix ans, le régime soviétique s'est effondré en Europe centrale et orientale. Depuis lors, on peut raisonnablement parler de l'émergence d'une élite économique post-soviétique puisque son existence même dépend de l'autonomie de la sphère économique. Son développement est lié à la légitimation de la propriété et de l'initiative privées, à l'introduction des principes de l'économie de marché et à l'ouverture des économies au capital étranger…
Elito teorijos ir studijos sovietinėje bei posovietinėje visuomenėje
The aim of the article is to analyze the theories and studies of the elites in the Soviet and post-Soviet context. The author grounds the analysis on a view that the studies of political sociology, especially the elitology, depends upon the social context and the political regimes. The author attempts to differentiate the liberal schools in Warsaw and Budapest from the conservative school in Moscow and the periphery of the Soviet Union. She devel…
Grilles d'analyse de l'élite économique post-soviétique
A 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 ma…
Kaip/ar gimsta akademinis žurnalas
Review essay: 'Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas', Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla, 1997, Nr. 1
Parliamentary elites as a democratic thermometer
This article assesses how the character of emerging legislative elites conforms to the broader patterns of post-communist social transformation by comparing Estonia, Lithuania and Moldova. We argue that the pace and direction of change among MPs has been significantly shaped by the nature of regime change in each country. We first address the issue of pace and scope of elite replacement. Second, we examine whether and to what extent, over time, c…
Threat Perception and European Identity Building
Why the Notion of Social Justice is Quasi-Absent from the Public Discourse in Post-Communist Lithuania
This article discusses the paradoxical absence of social justice (both as a feature of political discourse and in terms of policy-making) in post-communist Lithuania. It addresses the question of how the politically successful Social Democratic Party has been able to function without proclaiming social democratic values and implementing social democratic policies. Here it would appear that supply of and demand for social justice is reduced by the…
Baltic States’ EU membership
The article assesses the EU membership of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with a special focus on their attempts, already as EU members to change their relations with Russia, which remains their 'significant Other'. We employ the discourse-historical analysis and focus on the evolution of the Baltic strategic discourse towards three themes, particularly contested by Russia, including the domestic interethnic issues, politics of memory and the eleme…
Grėsmių Visuomenės Gerovei Suvokimas
Atsižvelgdami į nacionalinio saugumo, rizikos visuomenės ir žmogaus socialinės raidos sampratas, analizuojame grėsmes visuomenės gerovei. Analizėje remiamės socialinio konstruktyvizmo sąvoka ir Lietuvos gyventojų reprezentatyvios apklausos (vykdytos „Vilmorus“ 2016 m. pavasarį, N = 1 004) duomenimis. Savo tyrime susiduriame su visapusiškos visuomenės gerovės samprata, kuri ignoruoja tai, kad atskiros grėsmių sritys gali daryti skirtingą poveik…
State Violence and Pains of Punishment
State violence against Belarusian women involved in protest activities after the fraudulent presidential election in 2020 and onward has been unprecedented in the country’s history. Women’s activism has challenged the patriarchal authoritarian regime, which was ill-prepared to deal with women. However, after a short period of adaptation by the repressive institutions, women became their “special clients.” With reference to gender-sensitive academ…
Elitų Europa
In this article we analyze the background and extent of the Europeanness of political and economic elites in the EU member states. The focus on the elites is based on the premise that European unification is still largely driven by the national elites of the EU member states. Europeanness of the elites is defined and operationalised along the lines of emotive, cognitive-evaluative, and projective dimensions. The emotive dimension is operationaliz…
Political reconsideration of the Soviet past
Different political elite groups of post-communist Lithuania offer different accounts of the Soviet past. Even twenty years later, after the collapse of communism Lithuanian politicians (with the exception of certain conservative anti-nostalgic leaders allied with some populists) still do not have a unified and coherent view on the Soviet political and social practices, truths, and methods. However, conservatives are very consistent in their rest…
Socialinis kapitalas
Social capital is a term, which is widely used in social sciences today. The concept has been coined by the French philosopher and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and popularized by the American political scientist Robert Putnam. However, the two authors talk of rather different phenomena while using the same term; they assign different importance (cause-effect) to different components and events of the social life; they draw rather dissimilar recomm…
Grilles d'analyse de l'élite économique post-soviétique
A 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 ma…
Kaip/ar gimsta akademinis žurnalas
Review essay: 'Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas', Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla, 1997, Nr. 1
Elito teorijos ir studijos sovietinėje bei posovietinėje visuomenėje
The aim of the article is to analyze the theories and studies of the elites in the Soviet and post-Soviet context. The author grounds the analysis on a view that the studies of political sociology, especially the elitology, depends upon the social context and the political regimes. The author attempts to differentiate the liberal schools in Warsaw and Budapest from the conservative school in Moscow and the periphery of the Soviet Union. She devel…
L'évolution des orientations axiologiques de l'élite économique post-communiste en Lituanie, 1999-2000
II y a dix ans, le régime soviétique s'est effondré en Europe centrale et orientale. Depuis lors, on peut raisonnablement parler de l'émergence d'une élite économique post-soviétique puisque son existence même dépend de l'autonomie de la sphère économique. Son développement est lié à la légitimation de la propriété et de l'initiative privées, à l'introduction des principes de l'économie de marché et à l'ouverture des économies au capital étranger…
Politika ir moters karjera
On the basis of qualitative research (over 20 semistructured interviews) study concerning interrelations between women's career and political environment, political-cultural norms as well as organizational situations and factors has been carried out. The main assumption is that career associates a person and the public sphere, reflects personal self-realization in society, community (career here is understood as personal trajectory to socially im…
Socialinis kapitalas
Social capital is a term, which is widely used in social sciences today. The concept has been coined by the French philosopher and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and popularized by the American political scientist Robert Putnam. However, the two authors talk of rather different phenomena while using the same term; they assign different importance (cause-effect) to different components and events of the social life; they draw rather dissimilar recomm…
Why the Notion of Social Justice is Quasi-Absent from the Public Discourse in Post-Communist Lithuania
This article discusses the paradoxical absence of social justice (both as a feature of political discourse and in terms of policy-making) in post-communist Lithuania. It addresses the question of how the politically successful Social Democratic Party has been able to function without proclaiming social democratic values and implementing social democratic policies. Here it would appear that supply of and demand for social justice is reduced by the…
Parliamentary elites as a democratic thermometer
This article assesses how the character of emerging legislative elites conforms to the broader patterns of post-communist social transformation by comparing Estonia, Lithuania and Moldova. We argue that the pace and direction of change among MPs has been significantly shaped by the nature of regime change in each country. We first address the issue of pace and scope of elite replacement. Second, we examine whether and to what extent, over time, c…
Išorės grėsmės Europos vienybei
One of the important constituents of common identity is a perception of the same external others as threats. Therefore, European identity construction should be grounded in similar perceptions of threats and European elites – a group having the most important influence on the construction of the common European identity – should share similar perceptions of these threats. In this study elites’ perception of 3 potential external threats to the coh…
Threat Perception and European Identity Building
Europinės ir tautinės tapatybės kriterijai elito nariųpožiūriu
The article is based on the data from the 'IntUne' project survey of elites carried out in spring of 2007 in 15 European Union countries (N= 1780). The Lithuanian, Polish and French elites' samples, analyzed in depth, have N= 120. The aim of the study is to assess the importance of selected criteria for elites' definition of a true 'national' and of a true 'European'. The theoretical framework of the article is based on the dichotomy of national …
The Elites’ Games in the Field of Memory
The issue of memory has become an increasingly important analytical category for historians, sociologists, cultural theorists, marketing managers and political scientists. Some scholars have gone so far as to claim that memory is the new paradigm of history, overpowering and restructuring other frames of reference like class and gender (Winter, 2000). The fall of Communism and its ensuing social transformations are major historical events that fu…
Political reconsideration of the Soviet past
Different political elite groups of post-communist Lithuania offer different accounts of the Soviet past. Even twenty years later, after the collapse of communism Lithuanian politicians (with the exception of certain conservative anti-nostalgic leaders allied with some populists) still do not have a unified and coherent view on the Soviet political and social practices, truths, and methods. However, conservatives are very consistent in their rest…
Tarptautinis Seminaras „politikos Mokslų Raida Rytų Ir Vidurio Europoje“
...
Elitų Europa
In this article we analyze the background and extent of the Europeanness of political and economic elites in the EU member states. The focus on the elites is based on the premise that European unification is still largely driven by the national elites of the EU member states. Europeanness of the elites is defined and operationalised along the lines of emotive, cognitive-evaluative, and projective dimensions. The emotive dimension is operationaliz…
The thematic triangle of the politics of memory in new post-Soviet democracies
The article is aimed at building a theoretical framework for an empirical analysis of the politics of memory in a new post-Soviet democracy. We elaborate on the concept of new democracy and highlight that in late post-Soviet countries it might be defined through three interrelated variables of trustworthy institution building, promotion of civil rights, and consistent foreign policy. We refine the concept of the politics of memory underlining the…
Drivers of Euroenthusiasm of National Political Elites
Undeniably, the economic crisis of 2008 was a critical juncture and a stress test for the EU and the Europeanness of its populations and elites. The crisis therefore offers an appropriate research setting for addressing two major research questions. In the following paragraphs, we first question how optimistic and unified the national political elites are towards the EU after the economic crisis of 2008. Second, we investigate which factors shape…
Grėsmių Visuomenės Gerovei Suvokimas
Atsižvelgdami į nacionalinio saugumo, rizikos visuomenės ir žmogaus socialinės raidos sampratas, analizuojame grėsmes visuomenės gerovei. Analizėje remiamės socialinio konstruktyvizmo sąvoka ir Lietuvos gyventojų reprezentatyvios apklausos (vykdytos „Vilmorus“ 2016 m. pavasarį, N = 1 004) duomenimis. Savo tyrime susiduriame su visapusiškos visuomenės gerovės samprata, kuri ignoruoja tai, kad atskiros grėsmių sritys gali daryti skirtingą poveik…
Legacies of State Socialism
The elites of Western Europe prefer social security for all citizens as the major aim of the EU, while the preference of Central and Eastern European elites is for a more globally competitive European economy. This disparity between elite preferences may be accounted for by the distinct electorates and elites’ responsive strategic calculations, or by the process of socialisation Central and Eastern European elites undergo during exposure to the E…
Facing past, present, and future
This article investigates the role of historical beliefs and experiences in threat perception. Drawing on the results of a representative survey in Lithuania, it demonstrates a link between public beliefs about the Soviet period and public assessments of the likelihood of Russian military invasion, NATO disintegration, and diminishing levels of national security. Additionally, the study places historical beliefs within a tapestry of other theoret…
Stakeholder collaboration in long‐term care of older people in Lithuania
Demographic situation, changes in the role of women in society and growing demand for long-term care (LTC) of older people have challenged the ability to meet the growing LTC needs in most developed countries. In countries where responsibility for LTC is still largely laid on families, it is, however, even more critical and calls for improvements in formal LTC systems. More intensive stakeholder collaboration in LTC policy development, organising…
Attitudes of Parliamentary Candidates towards the Politics of Memory in Post-Communist Lithuania
The 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.…
Baltic States’ EU membership
The article assesses the EU membership of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with a special focus on their attempts, already as EU members to change their relations with Russia, which remains their 'significant Other'. We employ the discourse-historical analysis and focus on the evolution of the Baltic strategic discourse towards three themes, particularly contested by Russia, including the domestic interethnic issues, politics of memory and the eleme…
State Violence and Pains of Punishment
State violence against Belarusian women involved in protest activities after the fraudulent presidential election in 2020 and onward has been unprecedented in the country’s history. Women’s activism has challenged the patriarchal authoritarian regime, which was ill-prepared to deal with women. However, after a short period of adaptation by the repressive institutions, women became their “special clients.” With reference to gender-sensitive academ…
Political science (22 works) · Politics (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Political economy (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Elite (6 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (6 works)