SOCI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Universal Health Care, J. P. Dutta, Social Inequality
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Administrative units (bureaucracy: ministry of education, ministry of health. Maintain a monopoly on rule-making, coercion and violence. Political and legal entity: border, population, central government, sovereignty, recognition, monopoly on use of force. States shape culture: laws (people affect laws, educational curricula, practices. States provide public goods: clean air, universal health care. States structure our opportunities: create infrastructures, generate incentives. States provide forums for working out social conflicts. Better state bureaucracies gave advantage in war: higher taxes mean more money for war, states make wars wars make states (borders & perception) Controlled by nobility: spread of democracy diffused access and control over state power. Development of welfare states: programs to reduce economic inequality in society, expansion of state agencies and services, pays partial tuition and childcare fees and pension plan, public transportation, the internet, water, sewage, electricity, etc, protects the citizens. Decline in legitimacy and trust of states. Reduces economic insecurity (from illness, old age, or unemployment)
