Political Science 1020E Lecture 1: Poli Sci Jan 10th

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 1020E
• Professor: Nigmendra Narain

Document Summary

Lecture 1 defining and debating the state. State as specific set of institutions: bureaucracy, military, police, courts, etc: 2. Why treat theses collectively as the state": 3. After hegel, political scientiststs rejected the concept as abstract, unnecessary: organizational features, 1. Territory demarcated area, defensible borders: 2. People community defined by territorial boundaries: 3. Sovereignty final and absolute authority within territory: 4. Domination max weber: monopoly of coercion within a given territory: 6. International approach adds: 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. The emergence of the dual state: with the decline of, 1. January 10th: war made the state, 2. The universal church: protestant reformation, peace of westphalia, 1648: state controls religion within territory.