SOCI 254 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nationstates, French Revolution
3 Apr 2016
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Charles tilly: state building provided for the emergences of specialised personnel (bureaucracy), control over consolidated territory, loyalty, and durability, permanent insituions with a centralised, autonomous state that held the monopoly of violence over a given populaion. Claims war makes states and states make war. War is also where democracy and technological advancements came from. War state-building war cycle: a: desire for war: Need money for war and therefore need mechanisms for extracion, taxaion, distribuion, mediaion of disputes. Creates bureaucracy and insituions state building: c: increased capacity for war making: Have a bureaucracy, a standing army, etc. due to state-building. Creates interests that go against war people will not ight for free (naionalism came later). They want payment, pensions, services, protecion, a voice in return for ighing wars. Leads to more democraic forms of government argues that it"s not an inherently beter form of government: tillly argues that there was no diference between governments and organised crime groups.
