Political Science 1020E- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 41 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 1020E
• Professor: Charles Jones

Document Summary

P o l i t i c a l s c i e n c e 1 0 2 0 e. Functionalism: you get what you need, state provides order and stability, so what threatens order, marxist- class conflict threatens order, but state is wherever does this work. Organizational approach: state as a specific set of institutions, the state brings nothing its just a term that refers to very specific. Institutions: territorial state, defensible borders, people, sovereignty, public institutions and roles, domination- max weber, the monopoly of coercion within a given territory, legitimacy. International approach: effective government, relations with other states. The duality of the state: protects its people from each other and also from external threats, borders define what is internal and external in the first place. Dualism"s distinction: state from internal society for which it provides rules and order, state from the international sphere in which it competes with other states in the absence of order.