POLC38H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Wield, Political Evolution
Document Summary
The state is a central institution in comparative politics as the centralization of violence over a territory. Regimes guides states by serving as the fundamental rules and norms of politics. Government leadership or elite in charge of running the state. Political legitimacy can take many forms charismatic, traditional and retional legal. States can vary in autonomy and capacity and this can shape their power at home and abroad. When americians think of the word state they think of local not centralized authority the locus of power. Defined by max weber the state in its most basic terms as the organization that maintains a monopoly of violence over a territory. An important element of the state is sovereignty or the ability to carry out actions or internal rivals. A state needs to act as the primary authority over its territory and the ppl who live there, setting laws and rights and resolving disputes between ppl and organizations and generating domestic security.
