ROUND TABLE PRESENTATION OF THE RESULTS OF THE RESEARCH “POLITICAL SYSTEM OF UKRAINE: CONSTITUTIONAL MODEL AND POLITICAL PRACTICES”

April 9, 2024 at the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies a round table presentation of the results of the scientific study “Political system of Ukraine: constitutional model and political practices” was held. The research was conducted under the leadership of the corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Political Institutes and Processes of our Institute, Galyna Zelenko.

In his introductory speech, the Director of the Institute, Vice-President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Oleg Rafalskiy emphasized the relevance of the main results of the study, which is aimed at studying the peculiarities of the formation of the political system of Ukraine in the conditions of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Oleg Rafalskiy and Galyna Zelenko

 Head of the Department of Political Institutes and Processes of the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Galyna Zelenko, presenting the work of her colleagues, noted that the monograph is devoted to the study of the institutional, normative-legal, and informative-communicative subsystems of the political system of Ukraine from the point of view of combining formal and real constitutionalism. Non-political institutions are studied – civil society organizations, financial and industrial groups, media, which directly influence the nature of the political system and political practices. The team of authors tried to understand in detail and structure all the subsystems of the political system and analyze its applied manifestations in Ukraine, giving answers to a number of urgent questions, among which, in particular, the following: omissions that practically made the effectiveness of certain elements of the established constitutional model impossible and, as a result, generated them weak institutional capacity; the correctness and expediency of the political choice made during the implementation of institutional construction, etc. However, the main thing is the search for tools to eliminate the existing problems, which currently prevent the further full-fledged democratic development of Ukraine.

During the presentation of the research results

During the round table, the project executors gave short presentations of their sections:

• “Form of state government: semi-presidentialism in the Ukrainian version” (executor – Oleksandr Mayboroda, Deputy Director of the Institute, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine);
• “Functional capacity of the Ukrainian parliament” (executor – Vitaliy Pereveziy, Scientific Secretary, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor);
• “The problem of structural coherence in the political system of Ukraine” (executor – Tetyana Bevz, Chief Researcher, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor);
• “The ruling class as a producer of changes in the political system” (performer – Tetyana Lyashenko, Leading Researcher, Doctor of Political Sciences);
• “The influence of financial and industrial groups on the functioning of the political system of Ukraine” (executor – Svitlana Brekharya, Senior Researcher, Candidate of Political Sciences);
• “Political aspects of the functioning of the judicial branch of government in Ukraine” (executor – Yuriy Nikolaiets, Head of the Department of Political Culture and Ideology, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor);
• “Mass media in Ukraine: structure, functions and political influence” (executor – Maxym Kyjak, Senior Researcher, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences);
• “Socio-political tasks of the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine” (executor – Nataliya Kononenko, Leading Researcher, Candidate of Political Sciences).

During the work of the round table

Scientists of the Institute took part in the round table: Chief Researcher, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor Vasyl Kozma, Leading Researcher, Candidate of Political Sciences Rostyslav Balaban, Leading Researcher, Senior Researcher, Candidate of Political Sciences Iryna Ovchar, graduate student Ihor Tsygvintsev and others. 50 guests also joined the discussion of the research topic online. Among them are representatives of scientific institutions, teachers and students of higher education institutions, representatives of the media sphere, etc.

The public discussion of the institutional, normative-legal and informational-communicative subsystems of the political system of Ukraine became a kind of event for the concentration of intellectual resources of scientists and public experts, and proved the importance of a professional discussion on solving institutional problems of Ukraine’s development.