Good Governance Principles in the European Union: the Lithuanian, Danish, and Swedish Policies of Attracting Their Citizens to Participate

Abstract

This article discusses models of public administration based on the good governance paradigm. It presents a comparative analysis of how one of the good governance principles - citizen participation - is implemented in Lithuania, Denmark, and Sweden. The presented analysis describes civic participation in two Scandinavian countries, which belong to welfare states according to their development level, and in a post-Soviet country, which is now a member of the European Union. Here we can raise a hypothetical question: to what extent can the Lithuanian experience in this area be applied in Kazakhstan? The article uses thematic, comparative, and documentary analysis methods to properly analyse the selected issue.