| Abstract [eng] |
In this dissertation, connections between populism and post-democracy in the Lithuanian political field after the transition to democracy are analyzed combining post-structuralist theories with post-foundational political theories. The main aim of the thesis is to show how post-democratic condition, embracing interconnected ontological, institutional and ideological disavowal registers of political dimension, cannot fully suppress social antagonisms. Under the conditions of neoliberal capitalism, these antagonisms unavoidably re-emerge, often endangering not only the neoliberal direction of development but also the democratic regime itself. The aim of the research is to examine most salient cases examples of post-democratic populism in the Lithuanian politics after the end of post-communist transition in this country. This dissertation is an attempt to identify all post-democratic forms of politics disavowal (archipolitics, parapolitics, metapolitics and ultra-politics), which until recently succeeded in neutralizing all the attempts to challenge the dominant neoliberal agenda. As well as to show why differently from other most similar post-communist countries which completed democratic transition by process of refolution (Poland and Hungary), Lithuania did not take the populist authoritarian turn. |
