POLS 2100 Lecture Notes - Liberal Democracy, Outlast, Ruhollah Khomeini
23 Jan 2014
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States allow large #"s of people to live together. Their most fundamental job is to provide order and protection. The state as the organization that maintains a monopoly of violence over a territory . Provide services (welfare, construction of schools, hospitals, roads) Has to be stronger than anything else in the territory. A state that is effective in providing order, it allows you to do other things. Once you have something strong enough to provide order. Then you are secure enough to do other things like go for walks in the park or engage in commerce. A state is a monopoly by force (according to tilly) Even in the u. s, the state can have trouble extending its authority to all places. This map shows parts of chicago and the gangs that control various neighbourhoods. In canada, the state is strong but is that because population densities in the north are so small.
