Vitalii Lebediuk
Ph.D. in Public Administration, Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science, Dean of Faculty of Political Studies and Information Management at the National University of Ostroh Academy. 10 years of academic teaching experience. Title of thesis for Candidate’s degree (Ph.D.): Organizational development of political parties in Ukraine: optimization of state influence mechanism (February 10, 2012). Research interests: Comparative politics, European Studies, Political Parties and Party Systems, Election Systems and Voting Behaviour, Quantitative Research Methods, Transition in post-Communist Europe.
Dmytro Shevchuk
Doctor of science in field of philosophy, Associated Professor of Department of Culture Science and Philosophy at National University of Ostroh Academy. 12 years of academic teaching experience. Title of thesis for Doctor of Science’s degree: “The ontological dimensions of contemporary political world: a philosophical analysis” (April 28, 2015). Research interests: contemporary political philosophy, methodology of cultural studies, problems of identity, cultural and political processes in Central and Eastern Europe.
Olena Shershnyova
Ph.D. in Public Administration, Senior Lecturer of Department of Document Science and Informational Activities at National University of Ostroh Academy. 12 years of academic teaching experience. Title of thesis for Candidate’s degree (Ph.D.): “The public administration’s mechanisms in the sphere of informational providing of tourism activities (on example of Rivne region)” (October 15, 2010). Research interests: information security in EU and Post-Soviet republics, sustainable development of local communities in UE and Ukraine, ICT for sustainable development, policy in local communities in UE and Ukraine, tragedy of the commons and its avoiding, problems of values in communities.