„The Anatomy of the Presidential Elections: The Presidential Elections in Lithuania in 2002“ 

The book analyses the highlights of the 2002 Lithuanian presidential elections. These elections became a significant political threshold in Lithuanian political culture and democracy. As elections align forces and make many changes in society, it is worth analyzing – especially what happened during the 2002 elections and how the participators of the process acted.

Society is constantly involved in action where the game is not for people’s values and intentions but for stereotypical political models. Politics and elections have become a distinctive arena, where the fight is not for political principles or ideological truths, but for social stereotypes, with which – sometimes consciously and/or sometimes not – address narrow political and group interests. Events and their assessments, though withdrawn from reality, are becoming the stencils, the models representing political opinion and appealing to a selection of conventionalized stereotypes. That is how primitive society’s participation in elections has become.

Lauras Bielinis