POL 2104 Chapter Notes -Comparative Politics, Social Forces, Amortized Analysis
6 Jul 2014
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Globalization has weakened states" ability to dominate and the attachment of populations to them. Any definition of the state must capture the duality of the singular ideal-typical mold of the state. Transcendental unity of the people is very important in the image of the state; the very idea of. The nation"s social unity gives the state the people"s collective consent; legitimacy. The image of the state is incongruously all about exercising authority to tame wildly different wills and drawing on loyalty that comes from a general will. The state is both a dominator and a supplicant. Three waves of state formation in the 20th century: world war one, decolonization, cold war. The first wave faced the nationalist problem. The second wave faced the problem of effective state construction as decolonized states then had to build a new state with relatively little experience. The third wave faced the problem of taxation and ideology.
