The staff of the institute
STOYKO Olena Mykhailivna — leading researcher of the Sector of Legal Problems of Political Science, Doctor of Political Sciences.
She graduated from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy with a degree in political science (2002) and completed postgraduate studies at the V. M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2005).
In 2005, she defended her dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Political Sciences on the topic: «Features of the Transformation of Political and Power Relations (using the Example of the Visegrad Group Countries)» (specialty 23.00.02 — political institutions and processes). In 2017, she defended her dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Political Science on the topic: «Transformation of Political Institutions in Modern Transitional Societies» (specialty 23.00.02 — political institutions and processes). Main areas of scientific research — democratization, political system, public administration, party system, local self-government, constitutional process, territorial organization of society.
Published over 100 scientific works, including: individual monograph «Transformation of political institutions in modern transitional societies» (2016); textbook, monographs, scientific notes and analytical reports co-authored by:
- «Politics, Law and Power in the Context of Transformational Processes in Ukraine» (2006),
- «Administrative and Territorial Reform in Ukraine: Political and Legal Problems» (2009),
- «Legal Forms of Political Responsibility: Analysis of Foreign Experience and Conclusions for Ukraine» (2012),
- «Inauguration: History and Modernity» (2013),
- «Prevention of Discrimination in Ukraine in the Context of European Integration» (2015);
- «Political and Legal Principles of Transformation of the Party System of Ukraine» (2016);
- «Model of Ethno-National Policy for the Reintegration of Donbas and Crimea» (2016);
- «Political and legal foundations of the peacekeeping operation in Donbas: world experience for Ukraine» (2018);
- «Legal political science: problems of conceptualization and institutionalization» (2019),
- «Euro-Atlantic vector of Ukraine: national report» (2019),
- «Revival of post-conflict territories: world experience and Ukraine» (2020),
- «Legal political science. Academic course» (2021),
- «Politics, law and power in the light of legal political science» (2022),
- «Strategy of political and legal development of Ukraine until 2030» (2022).
Recipient of the M.P. Vasylenko Prize (together with Yavir V.A., Bondaruk T.I.) for the series of works «Legal and Political Principles of State-Building and Nation-Building Processes in Ukraine» (2023).
Fellow of the Lane Kirkland Fellowship Program.