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
16.
17. State-Society Relationship
Types of Legitimacy
Traditional
▪ Queen Elizabeth II
Charismatic
▪ Fidel Castro
Rational-Legal
▪ Barack Obama
18.
19. Hierarchy, Organization, and Accountability
Formation of U.S. Government
Branches
Departments
Impact for StateAuthorities
20.
21.
22. “The Divine Idea as it
Exists on Earth”
Argument focused on
will and morality
Subscribers are
“idealists”
Friedrich Hegel
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
38.
39.
40. STATE CAPACITY
Ability of state to wield
power in order to
accomplish its goals
STATEAUTONOMY
Ability of state to wield
power independently of
the public of other actors