3. What is the State? Does it even exist?
If it does exist, how can we define and
categorize it?
How do different country cases illustrate the
State?
15. Internal Sovereignty
Ultimate source of authority within jurisdiction
External Sovereignty
Boundaries acknowledged by other states
and international system
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17. State-Society Relationship
Types of Legitimacy
Traditional
▪ Queen Elizabeth II
Charismatic
▪ Fidel Castro
Rational-Legal
▪ DonaldTrump
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19. Hierarchy, Organization, Accountability
Formation of U.S. Government
Branches
Departments
Impact for StateAuthorities
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22. “The Divine Idea as it
Exists on Earth”
Argument focused on
will and morality
Subscribers are
“idealists”
Friedrich Hegel
23. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU POLICE POWER
State regulation of behavior
Components:
Health
Safety
Welfare
Morals
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28. Not one defining view of the State
Counter to essentialist and reductionist
theories of the State (one way or another).
32. Group of U.S. political scientists in 1960s
Studying politics is akin to natural science
Politics should NOT make value judgments
What would be their main objection to
studying the State in the terms we just
discussed?
37. State as Partisan Actor
State as Guardian
State as Instrument
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40. STATE CAPACITY
Ability of state to wield
power to accomplish goals
STATEAUTONOMY
Ability of state to wield
power independently of
the public or other actors
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42. Strong States: Capable of providing adequate
political goods to citizens.
What are political goods? (see Rotberg Article)
Weak States: States partially capable of providing
adequate political goods to citizens
Failed States: States so weak they lose effective
sovereignty over part or all of territory
Quasi-States : States only possessing legal
sovereignty and international recognition