THE SIMULATION LIBRARY
Solo simulations. Choices with consequences.
Choose a question. Follow a subject. Find your way in.
17 of 17 activities
How do parliamentary, presidential and semi-presidential systems differ?
Form governments, build coalitions and compare who stays in office under parliamentary, presidential and semi-presidential rules. Apply confidence and censure procedures to the same crisis, then explore nine country cases.
Everyone wants change. Who’s going to show up?
You are one citizen among twenty. Predict what the others will do, decide whether to act and test what changes when incentives and communication shift. Shared interests are only the beginning.
The order is clear. Whose cooperation does it actually secure?
Organize a legal opposition transport campaign in authoritarian Lydora. Publish two promises, approach four independent organizations and learn from three rounds of replies. Then change one public-venue access rule and explain what it changes, what it leaves in place and what you still cannot know about votes.
The map has neat borders. People’s lives don’t.
Follow one household across records, schools and borders. Arrange authority and resources, then discover who your solution still leaves out. A neat map is only the beginning.
Votes in. Power out. Which rule would you defend?
Investigate real elections in the UK, Israel, Liberia and New Zealand. Follow how votes become seats or one president, test rule comparisons and defend a consequence you value and a cost you accept.
You passed the law. Why is nothing happening?
Follow a public promise into a jammed bureaucracy. Find the bottleneck, weigh expertise against political control and propose a reform you can actually test.
Who holds the advantage, and what is your evidence?
Investigate incumbent advantages and opposition opportunities through case files from Russia, Malaysia, Malawi and Serbia. Open two files, build an explanation from sources and defend it at a hearing. Trace how an actor’s action changes another actor’s options, weigh a complication and a rival, and compare what makes electoral competition unequal or opens space for a challenge.
One river. Three regions. Who gets the final say?
Take the national and regional governments’ perspectives as a flood approaches, clinic budgets diverge and a license is refused. Choose how power is shared, then live with the rules you set.
You wrote the rules. Who did you leave out?
Design a country’s promise, then put it through citizenship, language, schools, religion and voting disputes. A family you did not plan for is about to test your principles.
The right exists. Can you actually use it?
A worker tries to vote. A volunteer tries to reach voters. Residents try to get an answer. Find where access breaks down, defend your account at a hearing and replay one changed rule.
You bought protection. What happens when the boss changes?
Bargain for a community, then face a replacement leader. Compare who pays, who enforces and which promises survive. Find the point where a personal deal becomes an institution.
The streets are full. Why is the president still in power?
Lead a movement through five decisions about rallies, workplace refusals, repression and political offers. Track whose cooperation changes, sustain participants, and test the same move under a different outside-backing package. A promise, a leader’s departure and democracy are different outcomes.
Give your advice. Then find out what history did.
Letters arrive from Canada in 1992 and India in 1956. Recommend how to share power, predict what follows and face an objection. Only then open the historical record.
Everyone says “democracy.” What are they agreeing to?
Read the same survey answer through very different political lives. Decide what counts as democratic support, design a better measure and see which claims your evidence can carry.
A ruler leaves. What actually changes?
Open real case files from Tunisia, Egypt, Belarus and Sri Lanka. Test theories of revolution, interrogate numbers and sources, and defend what changed in political authority. New evidence may challenge your first explanation.
The facts are in. What counts as a problem?
Take a seat in a citizens’ assembly. Turn a pattern into a public argument, defend your benchmark and answer a challenge. Leave with a poster and the reasoning behind it.
You have a headline. Do you have the evidence?
An unfinished bridge. A confident public claim. Two reporting slots. Choose what to investigate, challenge the rival explanations and decide what your newsroom can responsibly publish.