POL218Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Georg Simmel, Fallback Font
6 Apr 2020
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The nature of the modern state poggi. An organization which controls the population occupying a definite territory is a state insofar as: 1. it is differentiated from other organizations operating in the same territory. 4. its divisions are formally coordinated with one another. This definition comprises only those fundamental features of the modern state already embodied in the early stages of its development. Some additional features reflecting primarily the experience of the last two centuries. However, this idea of an organization is implausible because through enormous expansion and the development of various active agencies and groups it is unreasonable to consider it one organization. Many individuals considered attributed to the italian renaissance view the state as a work of art . 17th century writers spoke of the state as a machine. Possession of political power had been embedded in other forms of social power.
