POLISCI 111 Study Guide - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Syncretism, Nationstates
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Why weak state in the third world: state-formation, compare europe vs. third world, paradox of post-colonial states, state apparatus is poorly developed, greater demands placed on the state. [a] human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. - max weber. Authority - competing claims on power: legitimacy, lacks popular recognition of the ruler"s right to rule, is there common recognition of the ruler"s right to rule, sources of legitimacy, nation, ideological legitimacy, market, distributive/performative legitimacy. The nation: [a]n imagined political community - and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign . Benedict anderson: evolutionary process, print capitalism and the protestant reformation. Strategies of nation-building: different approaches to national unification, rudra sil, syncretism, an approach to nation-building which combines elements of foreign/modern and the native/traditional values. Modernist: all things that had gone wrong were a result of traditional aspects of society.
