Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Comparative Politics, Dualism, Feudalism

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

Document Summary

Lecture 2: de ning and debating the state continued (thursday, january 10, 2019) The international approach: adds e ective government, adds relations with other states, the state is both international and internal. The duality of the state: the state protects its people from each other and external threats, borders de ne what is internal and external. Comparative politics: takes states as units of analysis, compares units, studies politics under state provided order. International relations: involves states within the state system, begins with the concept of anarchy, examines state interactions in the absence or rules and enforcement. The triumph of the state model: global extension (we live in a world of states, states are formally equal (re ected in the un, if high unequal in capacity, role of the state is controversial. Pluralist state: social power is widely and evenly dispersed, the elected government leads the way, ergo, the state is neutral.