Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Feudalism, Comparative Politics
27 Feb 2015
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Heywood, organizational view: sovereignty - final and absolute authority. Who controls the sovereignty may not be absolute however. Public as opposed to private power must be separate and distinct: domination - weber: a monopoly of legitimate coercion , territorial - weber: within a given territory . Heywood, international view: defined territory, permanent population, effective government, relations with other states. The duality of the modern state: external - relates to other states, protects against external challenges. The states made itself dual: the complexity of medieval europe, a) feudalism: fragmented sovereignty, b) new commercial towns and cities, c) varied forms of rule, from city-states to empires, d) competition between religious and secular authority. Processes of change: ambitious leaders vied for territorial control, war making built state capacity, states removed internal rivals, monopolizing coercion, the state outperformed rival" models: empires, city-states, protestant reformation split the universal church. 1648: peace of westphalia (you didn"t finish this point: resulting distinctions.
