The article deals with efficiency and costs diminishing problems of social services organisation and provision in Lithuanian municipalities. The author‘s analysis of social services economic levers is based on many authors ...

The article deals with global social security situation in general and situation in Lithuania in particular. It also analyses the implementation of New Public management in Western and Lithuanian social administration. ...

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The Swedish welfare model is distinctive among other social policy models according to the citizens equality paradigm, due to which there exists a belief in a social welfare state, redistribution of state resources, equality ...

In the article, the activities of presidents in the creation of welfare states are analysed. The main factors behind successful effectiveness in the creation of the welfare state are: public opinion to- wards the president, ...

This interdisciplinary article presents a concept of the 21st century and phenomena that are products of the 4th industrial revolution – big data and Artificial Intelligence technologies – as well as the opportunities of ...

The aim of this article is to identify and analyse welfare state models and their features in East and Southeast Asia. With this in mind, the article examines welfare state models in East and Southeast Asia and their ...

The paper presents an overview of M. Weber’s modelling paradigm assessing it against the opportunities of using the models in modern science of public policy and administration. Two types of research problems requiring ...