Party Patronage in the Lithuanian Public Sector
- Bibliographic Description: Aurimas Zaremba, „Partinis patronažas Lietuvos viešajame sektoriuje“, @eitis (lt), 2018, t. 1 137, ISSN 2424-421X.
- Previous Edition: Aurimas Zaremba, „Partinis patronažas Lietuvos viešajame sektoriuje“, Viešoji politika ir administravimas, 2017, t. 17, nr. 1, ISSN 1648-2603.
- Institutional Affiliation: Kauno technologijos universitetas.
Summary. The main issue of this paper is party patronage in Lithuania. Firstly, the phenomenon of party patronage is shortly described focusing on main research questions. Afterwards methodology of semi-structured expert interviews is presented. Lastly this article shows the main findings of party patronage study in Lithuania: party patronage index is constructed, data regarding motivation or party patronage, candidates’ selection criteria, impact of ruling party change on practices of party patronage, party patronage as a part of political culture is presented and analysis of Lithuanian political parties most prone to usage of party patronage is given.
Keywords: party patronage, political parties, public sector.