Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Comparative Politics, Dualism, Feudalism
15 Mar 2018
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The duality of the state: protects its people from each other and also from external threats, borders define what is internal and external in the first place. The emergence of the dual state: with the decline of, feudalism, the universal church, protestant reformation, peace of westphalia, 1648: state controls religion within territory. State from internal society, for which it provides rules and order. State from the international sphere, in which it competes with other states, in the absence of order. Comparative politics and international relations: comparative politics: states as units of analysis, a compares units, and studies politics under state-provided order. International relations: states within state system: begins with concept of anarchy, examines state interactions in absence of rules and enforcement. The triumph of the state model: global existence. But the role of the state is controversial. Social power is widely and evenly dispersed: the elected government leads the way, therefore, the state is neutral.
