Skurdo veiksnys Lietuvos politikoje
Poverty Factor in Lithuanian Policy

Summary/Abstract: One of the main qualitative aspects of Lithuanian post-soviet change is a political priority being laid upon the economic reforms. Economic and political restructurization if followed by significant change of social structure. It would be correctly acceptable to characterize ongoing social changes as a visible socioeconomic differentiation, even polarization. Significant feature of Lithuanian macroreforms is poverty arise - a contemporary socio-economic and socio-political phenomenon in Lithuania. Social, economic status are important reasons of human behavior, keeping up a permanent and stable influence on persons political selfdetermination, even if it is conditioned by extra-dynamic environmental change. Some tendentious socio-political processes take place in Lithuania: on the one way, electoral activity in Lithuania is one of the lowest in Europe, in spite of a low confidence in Government. On the other way, alternative forms of political behavior become more and more popular in the state. Its popularity grows adequately the growth of "exaggerated expectations" mass in the society. The formation of protest policy can be named as a sign of political dangerousness of (qualitatively and quantitatively) growing poverty mass in Lithuania. That is the reason why it becomes more and more important to appraise poverty question as a form of social interaction. This kind of survey, undoubtedly, broadens the field of political research in Lithuania. The main idea of the article - poverty is not only a political object; also it is an active political actor. This presumption is significant when it is made a distinction between traditional and alternative forms of political participation. There are sought to find the connections between poverty and political behavior, and how it makes impact on Lithuania's political development of last decade.

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