| Abstract [eng] |
The subject of the master's thesis is "The Welfare State Discourse of Gitanas Nausėda and Ingrida Šimonytė". This topic is relevant because the Covid-19 pandemic made us think and change our values. This also affected the discourse of the welfare state. Not only because of the Covid-19 pandemic but also because of the economic upheavals caused by globalization, climate change, and technological advances, new social questions related to well-being are emerging. The work aims to analyze the welfare state discourse of Gitanas Nausėda and Ingrida Šimonytė. The following tasks have been set: to present the main theoretical concepts that are necessary for properly examining the topic; examine the ideas of the welfare state, operationalize them for research; collect data, prepare methodology; the selection of articles and press releases based on keywords is used to find the attitude of President Gitanas Nausėda and Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė towards the welfare state in the social context; to analyze the welfare state discourse of the President of the Republic of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda; to analyze the welfare state discourse of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania Ingrida Šimonytė. A social order is a set of historically formed ideas, beliefs, and patterns of behavior and feelings that each culture has developed as guidelines for governing human behavior and group activities. It is a legal order, the coexistence of people in communities, regulated by social norms and institutions. Socialism is the name of a capitalist society that refers to internal trends aimed at solving the major problems of social development. Every existing social order can be considered as a possible distributor of social welfare between individuals or their groups. The welfare state should be understood as a balance between economic efficiency and social justice. There are three general conceptions of the welfare state: the first describes the welfare state as welfare for the poor, the second as social insurance, social rights, and social services, and the third as economic governance and the role of "economic government" in each welfare state. The welfare state is in crisis, and as the population ages, with more beneficiaries and fewer taxpayers, welfare state developers also falsely universalize equality. There are "right" and "wrong" interpretations of order. Discourse analysis was chosen to study because the goal is to understand what the rulers of the Republic of Lithuania say about the welfare state, and how they understand the welfare state. In this case, the speech of the President and the Prime Minister in the country's online media is being investigated. The analysis is the analysis of written and spoken language about social context and is concerned with how different types of language create meaning. In this work, discourse analysis is used to analyze how the current top leaders of the country understand the welfare state, how they present the ideas of the welfare state, and how they express their views on the creation of Lithuania as a welfare state. After the investigation, it was revealed that President Gitanas Nausėda set the goal of creating a welfare state as the most important. According to President, the welfare state needs to be created in three directions - strengthening security, reducing social exclusion, and creating an innovative economy. According to Ingrida Šimonytė, the welfare state accommodates trust, strong public services, inclusion, and the reduction of exclusion. In the Premier's welfare state model, there is no security and no trust, no innovative economy, and no inclusion. Although Lithuania has great potential to become a welfare state due to the favorable conditions of globalization: the population in our country is sufficiently educated, but the main problem is emigration and brain drain, and the society is also aging, there are more beneficiaries than taxpayers. |
