Journal article2020Dominik Tylka
CitationTylka, Dominik. “Problem dyktatu, władzy i państwa w świetle procesualnej teorii władzy Jadwigi Staniszkis.” Global Studies Review 1, no. 3 (2020).
Abstract
The article presents the processual theory of power in relation to dictate, power and the state. It discusses three model forms of dictate—the dictate of power, idea and form—as mechanisms intended to explain major political transformations, and analyses the state as a subject capable of establishing a dictate because of its political character and its capacity to aggregate resources.
Author's summary
The article develops one element of my reconstruction of Jadwiga Staniszkis’s theory of power: the relation between large-scale political change and the state. It shows that the concept of dictate is not merely a description of domination, but a mechanism linking specific configurations of power with transformative political agency.
Keywords
Jadwiga Staniszkis, processual theory of power, dictate, state, power, political change
About the author
Dominik Tylka
Institute of Political Science and Public Administration, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw
Dominik Tylka is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science and Public Administration, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. His research focuses on social and political power, individual agency, and the conditions under which asymmetries of resources become effective and relatively durable relations of compliance. He is particularly interested in the interaction between social structures and individual responses, including obedience, adaptation, circumvention and resistance.