POLITICAL OFFENSE AND THE SHAPE OF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM. REFLECTIONS ON THE SUBJECT AND SUBJECT MATTER THEORY. PART 1

Political offense is often regarded as a behavior involving an attack on an institution of
the state, but also as a specific act committed with political motives directed against an
entity which is not an institution of the state, for example, directed against a politician
representing a different system of values, beliefs, practicing a different religion, glorifying a
different ideology, etc. The view of the analyzed research issues in this text - a political
offense - from the problem perspective, was based on the findings encountered in the
functioning of modern political systems and solutions that determine the shape of criminal
law, while at the same time using general principles of criminal law that determine the shape
of normative arrangements. The main thesis put forward in the presented article has been
linked to an attempt to answer the question - what factors related to a political system, as
well as its dynamism (the ability to change, and the potential for democracy or nondemocracy)
affect the interpretation of the essence of a political offence by particular
centers of public authority.

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