O ZRÓŻNICOWANIU I DYNAMICE USTROJÓW
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2009
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Wydział Prawa i Administracji UAM
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ON THE DIVERSITY AND DYNAMICS OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
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The essay focuses on the diversity o f political systems, or national systems and their institutions,
and identifies four dimensions that characterise that diversity. They are: the scope of the state’s
power over an individual, the mechanism of replacing persons holding power, the functioning of the
rule o f law, and the level o f law enforcement. The main relationships among them have been discussed
and subsequently used to describe the main types of political systems of today’s world: socialism,
non-democratic capitalism and democratic capitalism. The second part of the essay is a brief account
of thirteen major political transformations known in contemporary history. They include the
transition to liberal capitalism, democratisation of the previously introduced capitalism, introduction
of socialism, dynamics of socialism, Asian post-socialist transformation, or institutional changes in
the former Soviet block. Finally, reasons for limited predictability of the dynamics o f institutional
systems are discussed and the internal as well as external forces shaping that dynamics are
presented. A differentiation is made between external and internal forces on the one hand and
tendencies and shocks on the other. Selected interactions among those forces are also analysed.
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Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 71, 2009, z. 2, s. 9-28