📅 Date: November 28, 2024, at 11:30 AM
📢 Format: In-person
🏛️ Venue: Lviv, Universytetska St. 1, Room 201
👥 Participants: 3 teams consisting of 4th- and 5th-year political science students and an audience
👥 Jury: Prof. Anatoliy Romaniuk and Prof. Vitaliy Lytvyn
📢 We are pleased to invite you to the second student team game organized by the Department of Political Science, “Building Liberal Democracy Together.” This event is part of the international Jean Monnet Module project, “Political Institutions and Systems in Europe: Comparisons and Lessons for Ukraine” under the Erasmus+ Programme.
🌐 Game Scenario: Three newly independent countries (teams) are represented by “founding fathers,” each team consisting of 4 students. These countries vary in their initial political structures:
- Unitary and centralized state
- Unitary and decentralized state
- Federal state
- The countries also differ in their systems of government:
- Presidential republic
- Semi-presidential republic
- Parliamentary republic
Previously governed as autocracies, these states now have opportunities for constitutional/institutional engineering and democratization tailored to their specific conditions and ultimate goals. Throughout the game, the focus will be on achieving sustainable democratic development (a consolidated liberal democracy). Depending on the outcomes, each country may or may not gain access to prestigious international or supranational organizations, akin to the EU.
The format and type of each team’s country will be determined by a draw at the beginning of the game. Debates will focus on key issues such as:
- Inter-institutional relations within the triangle of head of state – government – parliament
- Party and electoral systems
- The role of civil society
All discussions aim to foster the development of liberal democracy.
The educational game is prepared and organized by the Department of Political Science 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).
