Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: The Elected, Comparative Politics
10 Jan 2017
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Make sense of the dualism of the state. Chart changes in the state since its emergence in history. State as specific set of institutions: bureaucracy, military, police, courts etc. After hegel, political scientists rejected the concept as abstract, unnecessary. People-- community defined by territorial boundaries (once you create an area and surround it with defensible boarders, you are creating a people subject to the rules of a particular state) Sovereignty-- final and absolute authority within territory (there must be a site of final and absolute authority without it there is no state) Public institutions and roles (moving on from "i am the state" to "i serve the state") Domination-- max weber: monopoly of coercion within a given territory (because no state exhibits a monopoly of force globally but they do within a territory) Don"t see just "the state" they see a system of states interacting in complex ways.
