Lauras Bielinis (born June 30, 1957 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian political scientist and a professor at Vytautas Magnus University. His research topics include analysis of political text, election technologies, and political communication.
Biography
From 1976 to 1981, he studied in Moscow State University 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. 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. From 1994, a lecturer at Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science, and at KlaipÃÂda University. In 1996, he was awarded a Ph.D. in social science.
During the 2002 Lithuanian presidential election, he was a consultant for ArtÃ
«ras Paulauskas. In 2003, he was the manager of the Belarusian Institute. From 2006 to 2009, adviser to president Valdas 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. PolitiniÃ
³ komunikacijÃ
³ 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 NausÃÂda.
Bibliography
- RinkiminiÃ
³ technologijÃ
³ ïvadas (Fundamentals of Election Technologies). â Vilnius: Margi raÃ
¡tai, 2000. â 127 p. âÂÂ
- Rusija ir NVS: metodinÃÂ medÃ
¾iaga praktiniems studentÃ
³ uÃ
¾siÃÂmimams (Russia and CIS: methodical material for student practice works). â Vilnius: Vilnius University Press, 2001. â 36 p. âÂÂ
- Prezidento rinkimÃ
³ anatomija: 2002 metÃ
³ prezidento rinkimai Lietuvoje (Presidential election anatomy: 2002 Lithuanian presidential election) â Vilnius: Versus Aureus, 2003. â 207 p. âÂÂ
- Politika kaip komunikacinis Ã
¾aidimas (Politics as a communication game) (editor) - Vilnius: Vilnius University Press, 2004. - 188 p. -
- VisuomenÃÂ, valdÃ
¾ia ir Ã
¾iniasklaida: prieÃ
¡taringa komunikacinàsimbiozà(Society, government and the press: a controversial communicative symbiosis). â Vilnius: Eugrimas, 2005. â 127 p. âÂÂ
- Lietuvos uÃ
¾sienio politikos RytÃ
³ kryptis: santykiÃ
³ 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 SirutaviÃÂius, Inga StanytÃÂ-ToloÃÂkienÃÂ. â Vilnius: Vilnius University Press, 2007. â 154 p. âÂÂ
- Naujo politinio veikimo formos Lietuvoje: straipsniÃ
³ rinkinys. (New forms of political action in Lithuania: a collection of articles) â Vilnius: Vilnius University Press, 2010. â 139 p. âÂÂ
- Prezidentà(The President). â Vilnius: Knygius, 2011. â 165 p. âÂÂ
- PrezidentÃÂ. Antra Knyga. (The President: Book Two) â Vilnius: UAB Kitos Knygos, 2013. â 112 p. âÂÂ
- Kairieji jaunahÃÂgelininkiai: tarp romantizmo ir diktatÃ
«ros. (Left Young Hegelians: in between romanticism and dictatorship) â Vilnius: Vytautas Magnus University, 2017. â 224 p. âÂÂ
- Hibridinàkomunikacija politikoje (Hybrid communication in politics) â Vilnius: Vytautas Magnus University, 2020. â 160 p. âÂÂ
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