POL301Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Meyer Fortes, Stateless Society, Ali Mazrui

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Sovereignty: elements of a state not private. Public institutions: the institutions of the modern state are all public and. Sovereign and hegemony: the institutions of the state and the rules and laws made by it have authority over a particular demarcated geographical area. Formal monopoly of violence: the state is the dominant agency of rule and law. Impartial bureaucracy: the bureaucracy is theoretically impersonal, impartial and neutral: rational bureaucracy (term coined by weber) Pol301 lecture notes july 2, 2013: critical perspectives on nation-statism, basil davidson (africa, the curse of nation-states): Rejects the idea of africans to borrow/imitating the european model of nation-states: englebert, defining modern state. Monopoly over violence, territory, population, sovereignty (+ve: conventional discourse, pierre englebert argues that africa fails to meet the criteria of max weber. There is a dubious community of heterogeneous and occasionally clashing linguistic, religious and ethnic identities. Their claim to force is rarely effective and much less monopolistic.

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