Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Feudalism, Comparative Politics
15 Apr 2016
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Sovereignty: the state is sovereign, nal and absolute authority. It does not have to be absolutist (dictatorial, overwhelming) to be absolute. State is associated with the public sphere, as opposed to the private sphere. The state emerges with the emergence of the distinction between the private and public. Domination: weber - a monopoly of legitimate coercion . Territorial: weber - monopolizes coercion within a given territory . The state is a territorial phenomenon, they are always in existence in relation to their neighbours and must end at a certain point (they do so through defensible borders) Pursues legitimacy: when people accept the individual/council making the decisions and therefore accept the decisions themselves. Relations with other states (we can see states based on how they act with other similar units) The complexity of medieval europe (which pre existed the state): Feudalism: dominant economic system of medieval europe, overlapping and divided authority, focused around a complex pattern of personal relations, unstructured/unpatterned.
