Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Totalitarianism, The Elected, Ottoman Empire
23 Feb 2017
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Organizational approach: state as specific set of institutions. Bureaucracy, military police, courts, etc: why treat these collectively as the state, after hegel, political scientists rejected the concept as abstract, unnecessary. Organizational features: territory - demarcated area, defensible borders, people - community defined by territorial boundaries, sovereignty - final and absolute authority within territory, public institutions and roles. Legal or judicial affairs: domination - max weber: monopoly of coercion within a given territory, legitimacy - makes domination easier to swallow. International approach adds: effective government, relations with other states. Protects its people from each other and also from external threats. Borders define what is internal and external in the first place. War made the state: the universal church. Peace of westphalia, 1648: state controls religion within territory. State from internal society, for which it provides rules and order and. State from the international sphere, in which it competes with other states, in the absence of order.
