L’internationalisme municipal comme vecteur de démocratisation
This article examines the case of the Lithuanian city of Kaunas, the country’s capital in the interwar years. This was a historic period for Lithuania, which had become independent, and more specifically for the inhabitants of Kaunas: the city developed along the lines of Western modernity and becam...
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| description | This article examines the case of the Lithuanian city of Kaunas, the country’s capital in the interwar years. This was a historic period for Lithuania, which had become independent, and more specifically for the inhabitants of Kaunas: the city developed along the lines of Western modernity and became a European city, in part thanks to the municipality’s external action. In spite of technical and disciplinary contributions, as well as a tendency to centralization, municipal internationalism allowed the city of Kaunas to develop its own democratization dynamic, illustrated by the growing importance and openness of the relationship between the municipality and the press. This evolution, even if it was not intentional, is highly significant empirically: it altered the interactions between the local authorities and the citizens, and was meant to be political. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-263359343fc6433aa956a3a2422deebd2025-08-20T02:26:37ZengÉditions de la SorbonneRevue Internationale des Études du Développement2554-34152554-35552017-11-01232115137L’internationalisme municipal comme vecteur de démocratisationRingail˙ Kuokštyt˙This article examines the case of the Lithuanian city of Kaunas, the country’s capital in the interwar years. This was a historic period for Lithuania, which had become independent, and more specifically for the inhabitants of Kaunas: the city developed along the lines of Western modernity and became a European city, in part thanks to the municipality’s external action. In spite of technical and disciplinary contributions, as well as a tendency to centralization, municipal internationalism allowed the city of Kaunas to develop its own democratization dynamic, illustrated by the growing importance and openness of the relationship between the municipality and the press. This evolution, even if it was not intentional, is highly significant empirically: it altered the interactions between the local authorities and the citizens, and was meant to be political.https://journals.openedition.org/ried/12990municipal internationalismdemocratizationcirculationEastern EuropeLithuania |
| spellingShingle | Ringail˙ Kuokštyt˙ L’internationalisme municipal comme vecteur de démocratisation Revue Internationale des Études du Développement municipal internationalism democratization circulation Eastern Europe Lithuania |
| title | L’internationalisme municipal comme vecteur de démocratisation |
| title_full | L’internationalisme municipal comme vecteur de démocratisation |
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| title_short | L’internationalisme municipal comme vecteur de démocratisation |
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| topic | municipal internationalism democratization circulation Eastern Europe Lithuania |
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