THE SIMULATION LIBRARY
Solo simulations. Choices with consequences.
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7 of 17 activities · Political institutions
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.
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.
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 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.
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.