Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Class Conflict, Egotism, Civil Society
19 Sep 2018
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Make sense of the dualism of the state. Chart changed in the state since its emergence in history. Determine why the state acts and what we should let the state do for us. But - state is whatever does this work. State as specific set of institutions" bureaucracy, military, police, courts. etc. After hegel, political scientists rejected the concept as abstract, unnecessary. Sovereignty - final and absolute authority within territory. Domination - max weber: monopoly of coercion within a given territory. Protects its people from each other and also from external threats. Borders define what is internal and external in the first place. Peace of westphalia, 1648: state controls religion within territory. 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. Examines state interaction in absence of rules and enforcement. Therefore, state bias in favour of dominant class.
