ABSTRACT
The multilevel conception of the working of law proposes, as we have said, three basic variables: the type of social and economic system, the type of legal subculture, and the personality type. Sometimes revolutionary changes offer what can be considered experimental situations clearly revealing the role of the independent variable denoted as the social and economic system. However, if the changes are introduced gradually and inconspicuously, an illusion can arise that the new system contributes nothing to the independently functioning legal norms. Optimal effectiveness can be expected from a normative act functioning within an accepted social and economic system, supported by a pro-legal subculture and realized by legalistically-minded individuals. In turn, the least efficient would be a regulation functioning within an unaccepted sys-tern which is subject to an antagonistic influence of an anti-legal subculture, and which is received by anti-legalistically oriented individuals.
