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dr hab. Agnieszka Dudzińska
Project Manager. Sociologist, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialization at the University of Warsaw. Research interests: sociology of law, legislative process, political opposition, public policies, and social research methodology. Collaborates with governmental and local government institutions.
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dr Rostyslav Balaban
Dr Rostyslav Balaban is a Leading Researcher at the Department of Political Institutions and Processes. He holds a degree in History from Drahomanov National Pedagogical University and completed his postgraduate studies at the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Dr Balaban has actively participated in numerous national and international academic and policy-oriented conferences, including “East – East: Partnership Without Borders.” He is a former editorial board member of New Politics, a peer-reviewed journal published by the Association of Young Ukrainian Political Scientists and Politicians. He served three consecutive terms as a Kyiv District Council Deputy and is a member of the Ukrainian Association of Political Science. His academic and research interests focus on electoral processes, voter behavior, protest democracy, and political participation.
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dr hab. Ryszard Balicki, prof. UWr
Professor at the Department of Constitutional Law at the University of Wrocław. A graduate of law at the University of Wrocław. Member of the Polish Association of Constitutional Law, the Polish Association of European Law, the IUS Social Contract Incubator Association, the National Electoral Commission, and the Committee on Legal Sciences. Awarded the Silver Cross of Merit and the Medal of the National Education Commission. Research interests include human rights and freedoms, executive power in states, and the constitutional aspects of European integration.
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dr Svitlana Brekharia
Senior Researcher, Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Department of Political Institutions and Processes, Candidate of Political Sciences. In 2005, she defended her dissertation on “Personality as a subject of politics: the motivational aspect of the exercise of political power” and received the degree of Candidate of Political Sciences. She has been working at Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 2004.
dr hab. Jarosław Flis, prof. UJ
Professor at the Jagiellonian University in the Department of Mediatization Research. His research interests include: political behavior, electoral systems, public communication, social conflicts and local government. Three projects he led received NCN grants: "Studying the scale of the gerrymandering phenomenon in Polish elections to municipal councils in 2014", "Paths of success, paths of retreat - patterns of electoral career and elite circulation in the Polish multi-level system of electoral competition" and "Ordinance for Poland. Methods of forecasting the political consequences of introducing a mixed electoral system". The publication "Pot and ladle: a formula for estimating the distribution of seats under the Jefferson–D’Hondt method" (1.9), which he co-authored and which appeared in the renowned journal "Public Choice", received the "Duncan Black Prize" for the best text in this periodical in 2020. He was an expert of the Sejm's extraordinary commission preparing the electoral code adopted in 2011. His project of the "Proportional-Local Ordinance" was adopted
as the official proposal of the Parliamentary Team for Changing the Electoral Ordinance to the Mixed Ordinance in 2023.
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prof. dr hab. Monika Florczak-Wątor
Professor at the Department of Constitutional Law at Jagiellonian University. Vice-Chair of the Committee on Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Head of the Center for Interdisciplinary Constitutional Studies at Jagiellonian University, and Director of the Doctoral Interdisciplinary Program Society of the Future at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences at Jagiellonian University. A graduate of law and political science, as well as postgraduate studies for translators in English and Czech. Co-founder of the Central and Eastern European Chapter of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) and the Democracy in Practice Association. Research interests include comparative law, constitutional axiology, constitutional theory and interpretation, constitutional judiciary, and human rights protection.
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dr hab. Kaja Gadowska, prof. UJ
Professor at the Institute of Sociology at Jagiellonian University. A graduate of sociology at Jagiellonian University and the Society and Politics program at Central European University and Lancaster University. Recipient of numerous awards, including the Stanisław Ossowski Prize and the Klemens Szaniawski Competition Award. Currently a president of European Sociological Association for the term 2024–2026 and a member of the Main Board of the Polish Sociological Association. Her research interests include the public sphere, Poland’s post-1989 transformation process, democracy, political-economic-administrative relations in post-communist countries, sociology of law, and the functioning of the coal mining industry.
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dr Ihor Hurak
Dean of the Faculty of History, Political Science, and International Relations at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University in Ivano-Frankivsk. Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for Scientific and Technical Expertise and Information and the Visegrad Fund. Member of the Ukrainian Association of Professors and Researchers of European Integration (APREI). Research interests include the Ukrainian question in the foreign policy of Russia, the EU, the USA, and Poland, as well as international security and integration processes in Eastern Europe.
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prof. dr hab. Mariusz Jabłoński
A faculty member at the Faculty of Law, Administration, and Economics of the University of Wrocław, head of the Department of Constitutional Law and the Postgraduate Studies in Personal Data Protection. He is a member of the Supreme Audit Office (NIK) College, a legal advisor, and the author (and co-author) of nearly 500 scientific publications, including monographs, commentaries, articles, commentaries, and editorials. He is the editor-in-chief of Przegląd Prawa i Adminiacji (Law and Administration Review), a member of the IT in Administration program council, and from 2017 to 2019, a member of the Expert Committee at the Inspector General for Personal Data Protection (GIODO).
Professor M. Jabłoński's interests include issues such as: constitutional law, the protection of economic freedom, the information status of individuals in modern democratic states, the protection of whistleblowers in public and private entities, along with the implementation of appropriate procedures, the application and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms in the practical operation of public and private entities, the security of classified information, statutory secrets, and the status of legal professions of public trust.
He is an author of over 100 different types of legal opinions concerning, among others: the legislative process, the constitutionality of specific solutions, as well as detailed issues related to information protection in the area of public law and private law.
prof. dr hab. Antoni Kamiński
Professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. A graduate of the Institute of Sociology at the University of Warsaw. Member of the National Development Council under the President of Poland. Co-founder of the first Polish branch of Transparency International. His research interests include political and economic institutions, international security, and strategic analysis.
dr Yuliia Kobets
Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science. Graduate of the Department of Political Science, Faculty of History, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University. Representative of teachers in the Scientific and Technical Council of the university, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of History, Political Science and International Relations. Her research interests include the political system, political geography and geopolitics, national security, anti-corruption policy, gender and politics.
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dr Nataliya Kononenko
Leading researcher at the I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies of the NAS of Ukraine. Lecturer at the National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" and the Kyiv Aviation University. Graduate of the Faculty of History of the Kyiv National Pedagogical University named after M. P. Dragomanov. Member of the Ukrainian Association of Political Sciences (APSU).
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dr hab. Tetyana Lyashenko
Works at the I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies of the NAS of Ukraine. Member of the Scientific Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
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dr Michał Mistygacz
Researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Warsaw. Prosecutor of the District Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw, member of the Codification Commission of the Judiciary and Prosecutor's Office. His research interests include: legal protection bodies, the constitutional and procedural position of the prosecutor's office, and the legislative process.
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prof. Ihor Onyshchuk
Doctor of Legal Sciences, PhD in Theology. Professor. Academician (Full Member) of the International Academy of Informatization. Professor of the Department of Law Enforcement at the Educational and Scientific Law Institute of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University. Director of the Center for Constitutional Justice. Research at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University.
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dr Igor Symysenko
PhD in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Research interests include political participation, the formation of political demand and supply, and the role of institutional trust and social capital in forms of political participation.
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prof. dr hab. Svitlana Sytnyk
Works at the I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies of the NAS of Ukraine. A graduate of the Faculty of History at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Her research interests include political analysis, European integration, public policy, governmental institutional capacity, and the institutional architecture of post-war reconstruction.
dr hab. Jacek Zaleśny
Department of Political Systems, University of Warsaw. Doctor of Laws in the field of constitutional law. Member of the Polish Society of Constitutional Law. Head of the international research project "Constitutional judiciary in post-Soviet states: between the model of the rule of law and its local application". Awarded with the medal 20-летия Юридического факультета Евразийского национального университета им. Л. Н. Гумилева, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. His research interests include: institutions of legal protection, constitutional law, correct legislation, political systems of post-Soviet states, political transformation in post-Soviet states.
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prof. dr hab. Galyna Zelenko
Head of the Department of Political Institutions and Processes at the I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies of the NAS of Ukraine. A graduate of the Faculty of History at Drahomanov National Pedagogical University in Kyiv. Member of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) and Aspen Ukraine. Correspondent at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
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Marta Bogacka
Website Administrator.
A student in the Master’s program at the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Warsaw.
Martyna Mykhaylyuk
Project collaborator.
Student of Ukrainian Studies with English at the University of Warsaw.
Maryna Karatyhina
Assistant to the Project Coordinator.
Graduate of the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Warsaw. Master’s student in European Ukrainian Studies at the University of Warsaw.
Eliza Trofanovych
Assistant Project Manager.
Student of International Relations at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies. Member of the Young Diplomats Forum. Public Relations Specialist at Model European Union Berlin 2025.