Dr. Ainė Ramonaitė

Professor, Research professor

Department

The (Post)Soviet Memory Studies Center

Department of Political Behavior and Institutions

Research groups

Political behaviour, subjectivity and contention

Research areas

Comparative Politics and Political Sociology

Research

Postcommunist Transformation as Dismantling of the Soviet Modernity Project

Lithuanian National Election Study 2020

Additional info

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.

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