Dr. Ainė Ramonaitė
Professor, Research professor
Research areas
Comparative Politics and Political Sociology
Research
Factors and Actors Contributing to the Willingness to Defend One’s Own Country: the Case of Latvia, Lithuania and Taiwan
Postcommunist Transformation as Dismantling of the Soviet Modernity Project
Additional info
aine.ramonaite@tspmi.vu.lt
Ainė Ramonaitė is a Professor at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University. She is the head of the Department of Political Behaviour and Institutions and the leader of the (Post)Soviet Memory Studies Center.
She obtained her PhD in political science from Vilnius University in 2005. She has published a number of books and edited volumes on informal networks in soviet Lithuania, the Sąjūdis movement, the development of the Lithuanian party system and the Lithuanian voter. Since 2012, she leads the Lithuanian National Election Study.
Research projects and grants
- Postcommunist Transformation as Dismantling of the Soviet Modernity Project. (Participant). Project funded by the Research Council of Lithuania (2021-2022).
- Lithuanian National Election Study 2020. (Principal Investigator). Project funded by the Research Council of Lithuania (2019 – 2021).
- Potential and Preconditions of Civil Resistance in Lithuania. (Principal Investigator). Project funded by the Research Council of Lithuania (2016 – 2017).
- Lithuanian National Election Study 2016. (Principal Investigator). Project funded by the Research Council of Lithuania (2016 – 2018).
- Invisible Society of Soviet-era Lithuania: the Revision of Distinction between Soviet and non-Soviet Informal Networks (Principal investigator). Research funded by the European Social Fund under the Global Grant measure (2012 – 2015).
- Lithuanian National Election Study (Principal investigator). Project funded by the Research Council of Lithuania (2012 – 2014).
- The Phenomenon of Sąjūdis: Network Analysis of the Civil Social Movement (Principal investigator). Project funded by the Research Council of Lithuania, (2009 – 2011).
- Democracy in Knowledge Society: The Analysis of Challenges and Possibilities (Principal investigator). Project funded by the Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation, (2007-2009).
Courses taught
Basics of Political Science
State and Civil Society
Anthropology of Soviet and post-Soviet Societies
Research interests
Civil society
Political participation
Studies of political parties
Political behavior
Political culture
Electoral behavior
Publications
Popa, S. et al. [Ramonaitė, A.] „Party System Stability“, In Schmitt, H., Segati, P. and C. Vand der Eijk (eds.) Consequences of Context: How the Social, Political and Economic Environment Affetcs Voting. London, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers/ ECPR Press, 2021, pp. 151-168.
Ramonaitė, A. ir Vaiginytė, A. Tendencingumo paieškos politikų valdomoje žiniasklaidoje: Lietuvos regioninės spaudos analizė taikant kompiuterinės turinio analizės metodus. Politologija, 2021, 100 (4), 34-68. https://doi.org/10.15388/Polit.2020.100.2
Ramonaitė, A. Mapping the political space in Lithuania: the discrepancy between party elites and party supporters. Journal of Baltic Studies, 2020, 51(4): 477 – 496. https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2020.1792521
Ramonaitė, A. Apklausėjo įtaka apklausų rezultatams Lietuvoje: trijų apklausų analizė. Filosofija, Sociologija, 2020, 31(4): 365 – 377.
Ramonaitė, A. Kavaliauskaitė, J. “Qui a conduit la «Révolution chantante» à travers la Lituanie? Une typologie des pionniers du mouvement du Sąjūdis”. Revue Ethnologie française, 2018, 2, 309 – 322. https://doi.org/10.3917/ethn.182.0305
Ramonaitė, A. Valstiečių ir žaliųjų sąjungos sėkmės paslaptis: vertybinė neša ar “viltingasis rinkėjas”? In Jastramskis M. (ed.) Ar galime prognozuoti Seimo rinkimus? Trijų kūnų problema Lietuvos politikoje. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2018, p. 153 – 176.
