TY - JOUR
TI - Agency and Political Action. The Main Theoretical Trends in Polish Political Sciences
AU - Drałus, Dorota
TI - Agency and Political Action. The Main Theoretical Trends in Polish Political Sciences
AB - 
	In this article I discuss the views of contemporary Polish political scientists concerning the subject of political agency. I stress the diversity of research perspectives adopted in the Polish literature on the subject and no less diverse conceptions of agency. I also emphasise differences in the understanding of the qualities of agency, especially the capacity for political action and participation in political processes. The analysis demonstrates the pluralism of the accepted concepts of political ontology. I also argue that it is important for Polish political scientists to preserve the autonomy and specificity of the political science research on agency, in particular the independence of this discipline from philosophical perspectives. At the same time, I refer to several philosophical paradigms in the understanding of
VL - 2023
IS - No. 8/2023
PY - 2023
SN - 2543-7046
C1 - 2544-0845
SP - 185
EP - 202
DO - 10.4467/25440845TP.23.011.18550
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/teoria-polityki/article/agency-and-political-action-the-main-theoretical-trends-in-polish-political-sciences
KW - political actor
KW - political agency
KW - political participation