2) The nation state Flashcards
What defines a state?
Monopoly of legitimate violence. Territoriality. Sovereignty. Plurality. The people.
What defines ‘monopoly of legitimate violence’?
The state is a single center of power, and there are no indivudal use of violence.
What defines ‘territoriality’?
Clearly defined borders/territory, and demarcation of the state’s monopoly power.
What defines ‘sovereignity’?
States are the ultimate authority, and there is a principle of non-intervention.
What defines ‘plurality’?
Borders imply neighbours (a plurality of sovereign states), which is potential threats to the state.
What defines ‘the people’?
States rule and consists of people, which make a ruler-people relationship, where the minor rule the major.
What is the three phases of state development?
Consolidation of rule.
Rationalization of rule.
Expansion of rule.
What defines the first phase of state development?
Consolidation of rule:
- Defining state territories.
- Mostly driven by war and conquest.
What defines the second phase of state development?
Rationalization of rule:
- Absolutism.
- Creating political centre.
- Professional bureaucracies, which rase money for war.
What defines the third phase of state development?
Expansion of rule:
- States tend to grow.
- Bureaucracies is an inherent tendecy.
- Transition to representative government.
What is the difference on a state and a nation?
A state concerns the territory, while the nation concerns the feeling of belonging somewhere.
What is the public sphere?
Intermediate level between state and society.
It depends on state-protected institutions.
What defines citizenship?
Equal rights and duties.
- Civil rights (equality).
- Political rights (right to vote).
- Social rights (right to unemployment benefits).
What defines nationhood?
Imagined community through trust, belonging, pride and solidarity.
How does Giddens define globalization?
“Intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by event occuring many miles away”.
What are the different components of globalization?
Economic.
Cultural.
Political.
Which potential consequences does the globalization has for the nation state?
Sovereignity: trend towards multi-level governance.
National economy: more difficult to tax and to regulate.
Nationhood: nationhood loss importance.
What defines weak post-colonial states?
Low capacity and resources.
Ethnically fragmented.
Few constraints for elites.
How is the sovereignity in post-colonial states?
Only formal sovereignity, because the state depends on economic aid.
What is a factual membership of a state?
Being a member of a state is a function of your residence.
What is an ideational membership of a state?
The subjective feeling of belonging to a social group.
What defines the civilization of the state?
Differentiation between state and society.
Public sphere and democratic participation.
Citizenship.
Nationhood.
What defines the state-society differentation?
States constrained to political activity.
