The article discusses three approaches to the issue of access to justice: the neoclassical economic theory, critical sociology, and the concept of power triad. Economic approaches highlight the most visible aspect of the problem: namely, inflated legal fees. Critical sociology focuses on the...

The institutional environment of science differs across countries. Its particularities have an impact on productivity of scientific enterprise in terms of both research and teaching. Reform of the system of higher education occupies an important place in programs of catch-up modernization....

The neoclassical approach toward explaining domination in the market is confronted with the approach of critical theory. Special attention is paid to domination by virtue of a constellation of interests in the market. This requires a particular technique for imposing will, namely conditional...

Le texte est consacré à l’analyse d’un type particulier de pouvoir, le <italic>samo-vlastie</italic>. Ce type idéal possède cinq caractéristiques : (i) le pouvoir « sur » prévaut sur le pouvoir « pour » ; (ii) la forme extrême de la non-réciprocité des relations entre ceux qui détiennent le...

This paper focuses on the financial crisis of 2008 as seen through the lens of power relationships. In particular, what opportunities has it created for strengthening the positions of the economic and political actors vested in power? I pay special attention to the issues of domination by virtue...

Modernity is usually thought as a complex society with clearly differentiated spheres of everyday life. It means, in particular, that economic rules do not interfere with the norms structuring political, social, scientific and other interactions. The complex, differentiated society sharply...