The State

Question 1

What is the state?

Answer 1

An entity with monopoly over the means of force within a designated territory that it controls
Empowered by the population with making public decisions

Question 2

What does the ideal type of state consist of?

Answer 2

Political entity
Designated territory
Monopoly of force
If you have these, you have sovereignty

Question 3

What is the first view of the state’s role in development?

Answer 3

Compratorial state (Post-colonial state is run by the elite, the elite were brought out/cooperated pencil, interests)
Dependency theory

Question 4

What is the second view of the state’s role in development

Answer 4

Weberian state (modern state, possibility of a government that is legitimate)
Modernization theory developmental states

Question 5

What is state capacity?

Answer 5

Often used to suggest that developing states may not be as capable of weighing technical decisions as their counterparts in the North

Question 6

How is the state capacity assessed?

Answer 6

Human capital
Traditional capital
Capital investment

Question 7

What is ‘state autonomy’?

Answer 7

The degree of ‘insulation’ that a state enjoys from social and external forces

Question 8

What is clientelism?

Answer 8

Favouritism for particular groups that may be perfectly legal (unlike corruption) but inimical to social interests

Question 9

What considers a new form of government to be a weak democracy?

Answer 9

The inability to address long standing structural inequalities

Question 10

What is the view from the south?

Answer 10

Artificial (colonial artifact with arbitrary boundaries)
Coercive authority
Agent of neo-colonialism