Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Egotism, Failed State, Class Conflict
22 Jan 2017
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We may or may or may not always have states. Hegelian idealism: human history as the gradual fulfillment of human consciousness over time. State as provider of order and stability. But state is whatever does this work. State as specific set of institutions: bureaucracy, military, police: family: (cid:494)particular altruism", civil society: (cid:494)universal egoism(cid:495, state: (cid:494)universal altruism", neo-marxists: class conflict state resolves it, 2. Why treat these collectively as (cid:494)the state(cid:495): 1. Territory demarcated area, defensible borders: 2. People a settled community defined by territorial boundaries: 3. Sovereignty final and absolute authority within territory: 4. Public institutions and roles as opposed to private: 5. Domination max weber: monopoly of coercion within a given: 6. Legitimacy makes domination easier to swallow: 3. Post-hegelian political scientists rejected the concept as abstract, International approach adds: territory courts, etc. distracting, unnecessary: effective government, relations with other states.
