POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Mexican Drug War, Corporatism, Patrimonialism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 227
• Professor: Philip Oxhorn

Document Summary

Jurisdicion: what the state claims it has a right to intervene in or control: tendency is for jurisdicion to grow. Authority: what the state can legiimately claim to intervene in or control. Social construcion of the state: a triangular relaionship between war, taxaion, and state-building: charles tilly, based on western european system, states emerge because they can reach an agreement with their society. To win war, requires army, which requires money: state negoiates with society, jurisdicion and authority expand in unison, clear disincion between the public and the private spheres. Disincion: cannot take money from state treasury, clear sense of what is right and wrong, vis- -vis state authority, cannot use state authority for own interests: nandy: the importance of violence and the cultural dimension. Recourse, public hearings, criminal prosecuions legiimacy comes from. Loss of monopoly over physical force (civil war: somalia, former yugoslavia, afghanistan, problems of legiimacy, leading to high levels of violence.