Lauras Bielinis (born June 30, 1957 in
Vilnius
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) is a Lithuanian political scientist and a professor at
Vytautas Magnus University
Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) ( lt, Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas (VDU)) is a public university in Kaunas, Lithuania. The university was founded in 1922 during the interwar period as an alternate national university.
Initially it was known ...
. His research topics include analysis of political text, election technologies, and political communication.
Biography
From 1976 to 1981, he studied in
Moscow State University
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and earned a master's degree in philosophy.
From 1981 to 1983, he worked as an assistant in the Department of Social Science in Kaunas Polytechnical Institute. From 1983 to 1986, he entered Moscow State University's Faculty of Philosophy doctoral studies. From 1986 to 1992, he worked as an assistant in the Department of Social Sciences of
Vilnius University
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. In 1991, he founded ''Politologija'' journal and was its editor-in-chief until 2006. From 1992 to 1993, he was one of the founders of the
Lithuanian Centre Union
The Lithuanian Centre Union, or Centre Union of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos centro sąjunga, LCS), was a liberal political party in Lithuania that existed between 1993 and 2003.
History
It was established by the centre-fraction in Sąjūdis in 1990 a ...
. From 1994, a lecturer at Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science, and at
Klaipėda University
Klaipėda University ( lt, Klaipėdos universitetas or KU) is a university in the Lithuanian port city of Klaipėda.
Overview
Klaipėda University was formally founded on January 1, 1991, by a decree of the Seimas (the Lithuanian parliament ...
. In 1996, he was awarded a Ph.D. in social science.
During the
2002 Lithuanian presidential election, he was a consultant for
Artūras Paulauskas
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E ...
. In 2003, he was the manager of the Belarusian Institute. From 2006 to 2009, adviser to president
Valdas Adamkus
Valdas Adamkus (; born Voldemaras Adamkavičius; 3 November 1926) is a Lithuanian-American politician, diplomat and civil engineer. He served as the 5th and 7th President of Lithuania from 1998 to 2003 and again from 2004 to 2009.
Adamkus' ...
, and chief of the Internal Politics and Analysis group. From 2012, a professor at Vytautas Magnus University.
He is one of the founding members of the Lithuanian Association of Political Scientists. He established the journal ''Agora. Politinių komunikacijų studijos'' journal and is part of its editorial team.
On 15 January 2021, Lauras Bielinis was appointed as a member of the Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission by a decree of President
Gitanas Nausėda
Gitanas Nausėda (born 19 May 1964) is a Lithuanian economist, politician and banker who is serving as the ninth and incumbent President of Lithuania since 2019. He was previously director of monetary policy at the Bank of Lithuania from 1996 un ...
.
Bibliography
* Rinkiminių technologijų įvadas (''Fundamentals of Election Technologies''). – Vilnius: Margi raštai, 2000. – 127 p. –
* Rusija ir NVS: metodinė medžiaga praktiniems studentų užsiėmimams (''Russia and CIS: methodical material for student practice works''). – Vilnius: Vilnius University Press, 2001. – 36 p. –
* Prezidento rinkimų anatomija: 2002 metų prezidento rinkimai Lietuvoje (''Presidential election anatomy: 2002 Lithuanian presidential election'') – Vilnius: Versus Aureus, 2003. – 207 p. –
* Politika kaip komunikacinis žaidimas (''Politics as a communication game'') (editor) - Vilnius: Vilnius University Press, 2004. - 188 p. -
* Visuomenė, valdžia ir žiniasklaida: prieštaringa komunikacinė simbiozė (''Society, government and the press: a controversial communicative symbiosis''). – Vilnius: Eugrimas, 2005. – 127 p. –
Lietuvos užsienio politikos Rytų kryptis: santykių su Rusijos Federacijos Kaliningrado sritimi, Baltarusija ir Ukraina perspektyva(''Lithuania foreign politics in the East: a perspective on relations with Russian Federation's Kaliningrad Oblast, Belarus and Ukraine'') /
Raimundas Lopata, Lauras Bielinis, Vladas Sirutavičius, Inga Stanytė-Toločkienė. – Vilnius: Vilnius University Press, 2007. – 154 p. –
* Naujo politinio veikimo formos Lietuvoje: straipsnių rinkinys. (''New forms of political action in Lithuania: a collection of articles'') – Vilnius: Vilnius University Press, 2010. – 139 p. –
* Prezidentė (''The President''). – Vilnius: Knygius, 2011. – 165 p. –
* Prezidentė. Antra Knyga. (''The President: Book Two'') – Vilnius: UAB Kitos Knygos, 2013. – 112 p. –
* Kairieji jaunahėgelininkiai: tarp romantizmo ir diktatūros. (''Left Young Hegelians: in between romanticism and dictatorship'') – Vilnius: Vytautas Magnus University, 2017. – 224 p. –
* Hibridinė komunikacija politikoje (''Hybrid communication in politics'') – Vilnius: Vytautas Magnus University, 2020. – 160 p. –
References
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Living people
1957 births
Lithuanian political scientists
Moscow State University alumni
Academic staff of Vilnius University
Academic staff of Vytautas Magnus University
Academic staff of Klaipėda University