POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Monopod, Arab Spring, Modernization Theory
31 Jan 2016
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Identity in the modern world: modernization theory was wrong! religion and ethnicity continue to play an important role in. Brothers group was he only organized one so they had the advantage of their organization to get government after the revolution. 1. it"s not ethnicity or religion that is the problem but the people who dominate and take advantage of their position to have full control and manipulate people. The state: karl marx: instruments of class domination, his theory ignores the role of international system. B: rules out the possibility of state autonomy: assumes that the state is a super structure the empirical question because his idea that the state being an instrument of class domination is not always true. Max weber: the state is the monopod of legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. The importance of good governance: rule of law vs. police state.
