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Emphasizing that e. government is becoming one of the attributes of globalization andmultilevel governance is influencing its development, the article analyses the initiatives of theEuropean Union (EU), European Commission (EC) and the Division for Public Administrationand Development Management of the United Nations Department of Economic and SocialAffairs, witch can be used for generalization of e. government development achievements and serveas a tool for its further development. The importance of the European Commission's strategicdocuments on information society development and periodically prepared studies on e. servicesin the European Union countries for e. government regional development is underlined. It is statedthat the United Nations reports on e. government development are an effective tool for globalcoordination of this development and they can help governments of different countries to determinee. government development trends and to take into account the good practices of other countries.

Nowadays global competition could be seen not only in corporate level, but also is exists among nations. Competition among nations is in following sectors – foreign investment, export and tourism. As there is competition between nations, regions and cities (as it is among corporations) there will be always need for methods to increase subject's competitiveness – this can be defined as a Competitive Identity (Porter 1998). Term Competitive Identity is used as broader expression of brand management for Nations, Cities and Regions. Higher marketing effort is needed for developing (emerging) nations, and nations without resources (natural or man made) representing absolute advantages. Nation branding has emerged relatively recently as an important field in the domain of international marketing. Anholt 2007 states marketing quality depends on all the national stakeholders (virtually society – people) working together in creating competitive identity. Media could be involved only after all the stakeholders speak one language about their country. Communication can't substitute positive change; it can only help change to happen faster. Latvian authorities too often start from the least efficient – communication. According to Nation Brands Index (NBI) and City Brand Barometer, Latvia and its capital Riga, shares one of the last places – 35 to 40th (depending on research type and year) place from forty among other nations and cities around the World.After regaining independence and collapse of almost all the industry, there was little left for positioning Latvia as a nation, so fanning for ice hockey was spontaneous and very convenient way for local people to speak common language about their nation. So the state became branded without any positioning effort, by people themselves. The message to the outside world was; ''we are small nation risen from the rubble, but we can be part of worlds elite either as players or also as supporters.'' In fact Latvian ice Hockey is among World's elite nations fluctuating between 7th and ...

After the Third Division of Lithuanian and Polish states almost the entire territory of the Lithuanian GreatKingdom was incorporated into the Russian Empire (except Uznemune that was devolved to Prussia). Lithuaniahas lost its lineament as a political society, therefore the citizens were alienated from the Western traditionof administration and law. After annexing Lithuania, Russia has initiated the reorganization of the administrative-territorial distribution of the occupied country as well as rehashing the former and creating the new administrativeinstitutions. While ruining the previous governance system the deployment of autocratic-centralizedmodel of state administration and law was started.

The article examines the post-communist Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Polish parliamentary elitesand their relations with the Soviet regime. Two dimensions of these relations are highlighted: retrospectively,negative political experience in the former political regime (membership in the CommunistParty and the nomenklatura) and positive credentials of being involved in the dissident movement. Thestudy is guided by hypotheses underlying revolutionary nature of post-communist transition and stressingachievements of the electoral politics, market reforms and liberal mass media. Research shows differentshares of ex-communist activists and ex-dissidents, as well as their asynchronous changes in the postcommunistparliamentary elites. Variations are related to different meta-histories of the nomenklaturas, thecommunist parties and dissident movement in the country cases and recent experiences of democratization.

The new case of transformations in the Baltic region and in the European Union in general, as well asthe unified social, economic and technological space formation processes in the Baltic region are describedand analysed. These processes are comprehended as an important factor of further social, economic andtechnological modernization in the Baltic countries, as an precondition for more intensive and active integrationof Baltic economic systems into the European and global economic and technological structures, aswell as an knowledge based society and knowledge economy creation factor.The arguments determining the idea of the Baltic region community and unity, as well as opposingarguments are evaluated. The main principles of integration in the Baltic region, as well as the possibleintegration strategies are analysed. The unified social, economic and technological space in the Balticregion as an research area is described.Raktaþodþiai: integracija, transformacijos, vieninga socialinë, ekonominë,technologijø raidos erdvë,Baltijos regionas

The article deals with the issues of Lithuanian labour market policy development from the restoration of independencein 1990 till 2008. In view of various factors impacting the situation in the labour market, the articleproposes stages of the labour market development that serve as a basis for their analysis and assessment. The stagesare defined in connection with changes in the labour market and management environment which impacts the employmentpolicy and are reflected in the implementation of the existing policy. According to the authors, for the purposeof the analysis, the analysed period might also be divided into other stages on the basis of other indicators (e.g., bythe dynamics of unemployment only, by wage developments, by adoption of legislation relevant to the labour marketpolicy, etc.).The article invokes scientific, methodological and statistical information to conduct a comparative analysis andassessment of analytical findings as well as to briefly present findings of the applied Expert Interview approach. Thestudy evidences that in 18 years the Lithuanian labour market policy has undergone a long road from the then poorlyunderstood national labour market and unemployment problem (resulting in passive labour market policy predominantlyfollowed at the first stage, underdeveloped system for reliable regulation of employment of local residents, insufficientattractiveness of labour market authorities for job seekers, eventually making most of them use the servicesof "unofficial labour market"), through EU pre-accession period and harmonisation of the Lithuanian labour marketpolicy with EU legislation, up to implementation of the common EU employment strategy.This article is the first attempt of such a kind to provide with an analytical assessment of the changes in the developmentof the labour market and peculiarities of its management in the independent Lithuania. The article containspractical and theoretical insights on changes in the labour market and prospects of the labour market policy.

Performance is one of the key terms of modern public administration. Most of reform proposals speak in one or another form of strengthening performance or of introducing new performance measures/instruments into public sector organizations. Traditional public administration is usually poor in offering stimulating job contents, particularly because of over-bureaucratized regulations and narrow decision-making competencies which limit the job autonomy of civil servants. In contrary, implementing performance appraisal into public personnel management makes job more attractive regarding to career perspectives (clear and secure promotion) and extra payments for outstanding performance.

The paper aims to evaluate the main features of the creation and development of the integral culturalspace in Europe and the main problems of provision of equal rights in the context of the transitionprocesses in the Central and Eastern Europe. The paper has used the outcomes of the researchconducted over the recent several years, dedicated to the diagnostics of the problems of transformationsas well as economic and social development in Central and Eastern Europe with a special referenceto the development of the integral cultural space and human rights. Major findings show that thecreation and development of the integral cultural space in Europe is a very complex and controversialprocess and in this course various problems and conflicts arise. Therefore, to encourage the creationof the integral cultural space in Europe appropriate cultural policies are necessary to be implemented.These policies may embrace many priorities including: the preservation of cultural diversity,adaptation and dissemination of integrated European dimensions, elimination of inappropriate factorswithin humanism and democracy of all European countries, provision of equal rights in all groups ofmodern society. For implementation of key priorities of cultural policies the use of a number of pan-European scale special programmes is suggested.

This article is aimed at describing a system of society governance by indicating its constituent parts-levels ofgovernance, stages of governance and layers of governance. Governance at the regional layer is characterized as acombination of allocation of governing functions, which are assigned to different groups, among different types ofthe subjects of territorial governance. Using a theoretical model a current system of public governance in Lithuaniaas well as its layer of regional governance is characterized. Having considered the tendencies of reforms at theregional layer of governance, which have presently shown up in European countries, as well as the models ofgovernance at the regional layer existing in other countries, a system (provisions and versions) how to reform thegovernance of higher territorial units (counties) of Lithuania in the years 2005–2011 is presented.