Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Class Conflict
1 Mar 2019
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Lecture 1 defining and debating the state. Sovereignty final and aboslute authority within territory. Domination max weber: monopoly of coercion within a given territory. Heywood never exam questions green bibliography boxes. Yellow boxes with defining concepts tons of exam questions. Blue boxes: focus on boxes some matter and some don"t will inform us which are relevant. Make sense of the dualism of the state. Chart changes in the state since its emergence in history. Determine why the state acts and what we should let states do for us. Development heading towards an end point (cid:131) (cid:131) (cid:131) State as a provider as order and stability. State was specific set of institutions bureaucracy, military, police, courts, etc. After hegel, political scientists rejected the concept as abstract, unnecessary. Domination mx weber: monopoly of coercion within a given territory has overwhelming control of the means of violence and only they can legitimately employ violence.
