POL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Thomas Hobbes, 1936 Summer Olympics, Jean Bodin
27 Feb 2016
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Legitimacy, authority and ideology: concepts and definitions, hobbes" arguments, contextualising hobbes, thoreau"s arguments, contextualising thoreau. Logic of this part of the course is broadly to look at how power gets justified. Those who have power, or represent the existing order in some way, tend not to say they are simply ruling because they can. They tend to want to say there are good reasons that they have such power. Also, they could try to rule simply by force, but in fact it involves huge costs and risks to try to do so. As tilly pointed out in his article, before the tudors managed to create an effective monopoly of force in the state in england, every single succession to the crown since william the conqueror was contested by military force. And in an age with mass urban populations, the possibility of huge popular uprisings is always there.
