Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Elected, Totalitarianism, Ottoman Empire
23 Feb 2017
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Tates ha(cid:448)e(cid:374)(cid:859)t al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s e(cid:454)isted: medieval europe had competitions in place. Rival forms: cities, traditional kingdoms, empires. State model proved superiority after 1500: starts to establish that it does key things, meets challenges of era. State model now universal: won overwhelmingly, state is now basically everywhere, small city states have vanished. Hegelian idealism: saw history as the moving forward of human consciousness and ideas moving towards an end-point: development. You would do anything for the members of your own family. Sphere of association (ex. clubs in university) Perusing our own interests through people who also share those interests. Mutual engagement in a broad/universal fashion: the state as the end of history. Problematic definition: woodrow wilson: state idealist. His understanding of the state came straight out of heywood. Functionalism: you get what you need in the sense that we need an institution. The state as a provider of order and stability.
