L2: The State Flashcards
It is how a state is governed depending on the actions and decisions of officials. It is the process of decision-making and its implementation.
Governance
It is the right of the government to exercise its power & authority over its constituents. It is the recognition of a state and its authority by other governments or institutions.
Legitimancy
Set of ideas and beliefs that define the views of individuals, groups, and institutions; principles and theories that governments follow.
Ideology
It is an organized political community under a government.
State
This refers to the people who constitute the state, often citizens. It may include individuals residing outside the state’s borders.
Population
This is the capacity of a sate to self-govern without external influence or interference. It is closely related to the concept of self-rule.
Sovereignity
This is the mechanism through which a state’s will is expressed and enforced. It ensures societal order.
Government
This encompasses more that just geographical boundaries. It includes with land, natural resources, and airspace within a country’s jurisdiction.
Territory
He imagines the nation to be characterized by a “deep horizontal comradeship”.
Benedict Anderson
It is an imagined political community that is both inherently limited and sovereign.
Nation
The nation is:
- Members of the nation are united by citizenship and shared political ideals.
Member
The nation is:
- This sense of community, regardless of the size of the nation, is still always confined to the boundaries of the state.
Limited
The nation is:
- the nation derives sovereignity from its own name and its own people, instead of a hierarchical “divine rule”.
Sovereign
It is a form of political organization under which a relatively homogenous people inhabits a sovereign state.
Nation-state
