Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Class Conflict, Feudalism
4 Feb 2018
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Functionalism: you get what you need, state provides order and stability, so what threatens order, marxist- class conflict threatens order, but state is wherever does this work. Organizational approach: state as a specific set of institutions, the state brings nothing its just a term that refers to very specific. Institutions: territorial state, defensible borders, people, sovereignty, public institutions and roles, domination- max weber, the monopoly of coercion within a given territory, legitimacy. International approach: effective government, relations with other states. The duality of the state: protects its people from each other and also from external threats, borders define what is internal and external in the first place. Dualism"s distinction: state from internal society for which it provides rules and order, state from the international sphere in which it competes with other states in the absence of order. Comparative politics: treating the state as a unit of analysis, compare units (strong v weak, democracy v communism, politics under state provided order.
