🎉 On November 28, another round of the student team game “Building Liberal Democracy Together” took place!
🤓 For the second year in a row, the Department of Political Science, as part of the Jean Monnet Module project “Political Institutions and Systems in Europe: Comparisons and Lessons for Ukraine” under the Erasmus+ Programme, has been conducting this team game in comparative political science for 4th- and 5th-year students enrolled in academic courses within this project.
🙌🏻 This year, three student teams represented the “founding fathers” of their respective states, which they were tasked with constructing. The expert judges for the game were Professors Anatoliy Romaniuk and Vitaliy Lytvyn.
During the first stage, participants defined the basic parameters of their newly established polities transitioning from authoritarian regimes. These included territory, population, ethnic and religious composition, economic features, and more.
✨ The fate of each state was then decided by a draw, resulting in the creation of:
- A presidential unitary decentralized state with a high degree of religiosity;
- A semi-presidential unitary centralized state characterized by high industrialization;
- A parliamentary federal state with a highly heterogeneous ethnic and religious composition, which, according to participants, made it “unique.”
👍🏻 Each team showcased impressive knowledge of inter-institutional relations, party and electoral systems, and public engagement strategies, which in each state were concentrated within different administrative units. This allowed the exploration of various scenarios for organizing political processes and constitutional and political engineering within the constructed states.
📍 Once again, the team game highlights the importance of applying theoretical knowledge in practice.
Thank you to the students for their active participation!
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The student team game was prepared and organized by the Department of Political Science, the Center for Political Studies, and the student association “Polis” with financial support from the European Union under the Erasmus+ Programme, Jean Monnet Module for Higher Education (Project Title: “Political Institutions and Systems in Europe: Comparisons and Lessons for Ukraine,” No. 101126702).
