Journal article2018Dominik Tylka
CitationTylka, Dominik. “Władza jako pole sił. Rekonstrukcja koncepcji władzy Jadwigi Staniszkis.” Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Politologica 20, Folia 274 (2018): 57–68. https://doi.org/10.24917/20813333.20.5.
Abstract
The article reconstructs Jadwiga Staniszkis’s concept of power by systematising ideas dispersed across her works. The concept of a field of forces provides the interpretive key for presenting the theory as a coherent structure. The analysis emphasises the multidimensional and processual character of power, its relation to the state and the specific forms of rule described by Staniszkis as dictates.
Author's summary
The article offers a systematic reconstruction of a theory that is conceptually rich but dispersed across many of Staniszkis’s writings. I propose the “field of forces” as the key that connects processuality, multidimensionality, the state and different forms of dictate into a single analytical structure.
Keywords
power, rule, dictate, field of power, controllability, governance, management, process theory of power
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.