POLI 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Failed State, Civil Society, Comparative Politics
11 Apr 2016
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Welfare system is the main key for state gdp expenditure. Services provided by the state to the populaion, healthcare, social services, etc. State invest a lot of money to provide services. Part of the core funcions of the modern state. Exponenial of growth of the numbers of state in the world between 1945 to today. Also early 1990 end of the cold war and end of soviet union. In order for a state to claim itself being a state, it has to be recognized by a majority of states. 2 diferent kind of states two diferent views. Usually talking about government, more reducive approach of the state and what it does. State has a more symbolic dimension, related to a state"s idenity, etc. Classical deiniion: by max weber a human community that successfully claims the monopoly of the legiimate use of physical force within a given territory. Human community: naionalism and naion-state when a state is created, it also.
