Political Science 1020E Study Guide - Midterm Guide: State Socialism, Comparative Politics, Westphalian Sovereignty
15 Mar 2018
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Lecture 1 begins with a fairly thorough examination of the different approaches to defining the state. Hegelian idealism views the state as history"s glorious end point, combining universality and a sense of caring and responsibility. The functionalist approach defines the state in terms of what we need it to do so, for instance, the state is that which provides us with order and security. The organizational approach points to specific institutions such as the bureaucracy and the military and calls them the state. But the state is not just the sum of its parts. The fourth approach to definition, the international one, emphasizes above all the relations between states and their governments. Lecture plan: define the state, make sense of the dualism of the state. States haven"t always existed: rival forms: cities, traditional kingdoms, empires. Family: "particular altruism: civil society: "universal egoism" State: "universal altruism: state as end of history, woodrow wilson: state idealist.
