Backstage Democracy

Ainius Lašas is the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. Before joining the university, he held a lectureship at the University of Bath (UK), a Senior Research fellowship at St. Anthony College, University of Oxford and a Postdoctoral fellowship at the United Nations University (Japan). His research focuses on informal political culture and its practices in transitional democracies.

• Preface.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Concepts.- 3. Context and methodology.- 4. Practices in practice.- 5. Drivers of continuity.- 6. Drivers of change.- 7. Evaluating exclusive situationalism and its broader horizons.- 8. Conclusions