TY - JOUR TI - Unconventional Participation as a Political Mechanism – Dilemmas, Forms and Conditions AU - Sobkowiak, Leszek TI - Unconventional Participation as a Political Mechanism – Dilemmas, Forms and Conditions AB - For several decades, the importance of unconventional participation has been growing in the political space. The article deals with selected aspects of the issues: (1) Justification of a broad approach to the features of participation, not limited to the dimension of the political system; (2) Dilemmas related to the understanding of participation, its compliance/non-compliance with the norms of the democratic system, exclusive and inclusive nature, the issue of voluntariness, the role of violence, and the national and international arena of political activity; (3) Unconventional participation as an objective mechanism of politics, an instrument of the strategy of power entities and the activity of entities contesting a given socio-political order, properties and conditions of unconventional participation, including: its specific forms. VL - 2023 IS - No. 7/2023 PY - 2023 SN - 2543-7046 C1 - 2544-0845 SP - 63 EP - 79 DO - 10.4467/25440845TP.23.004.17517 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/teoria-polityki/article/wlasciwosci-partycypacji-politycznej-i-jej-niekonwencjonalnej-formy KW - political participation KW - unconventional participation KW - social movements KW - protest policy KW - political system KW - violence