Political Science 1020E Chapter Notes - Chapter 56-79: Keynesian Economics, Hard Currency, Social Inequality
15 Apr 2016
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Central role of state is to conduct social order, state de ned as set of institutions that uphold order/ stability. Its weakness is that it associates any institution that promotes order with the state: organizational. The state is the apparatus of government in its broadest sense; a set of institutions that are public in that they are responsible for social order and are funded at the public"s expense. The state is an actor on the world stage. Dualistic; one face looking inwards, one looking outwards. Four features: de ned territory, permanent population, effective government, capacity to enter into relations with other states. States may be legally equal but are very different in political terms. Emerged with the end of the church as a ruling institution, bringing an end to competing and overlapping authority systems. The peace of westphalia characterized the modern notion of statehood. Rival theories of the state: pluralist state:
