POLS 2510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Comparative Politics, Communicative Action
1 Oct 2016
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2016 the rise of the state, and of the political systems designed to harness its power. In comparative politics everything revolves around the state. ), tries to reshape civil society to its needs. Monarch/kings surrounded by a few thousand people who would do things for them, organizes ad hoc (on the fly), no departments/no structures, monarch gives someone a mission (no clear organization over the power of state) For example, talleyrand: foreign minister to napoleon and then king of france (after. Napoleon was ousted); powerful, even the king was afraid of him. So (european tradition 300 years ago) corruption and incompetence (loyalty and status puts you in power), disorganization (no clear division of labour, end up doing the same job, etc. ) Peace of westphalia simply gives each monarch their own plot of land; doesn"t create the modern state exactly, doesn"t say how" they should rule, etc.
