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Oct 4, 2024 · The state is a form of human association distinguished from other social groups by its purpose, the establishment of order and security; its methods, the laws and their enforcement; its territory, the area of jurisdiction or geographic boundaries; and finally by its sovereignty. The state consists, most broadly, of the agreement of the ...
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No concept is more central to political discourse and political analysis than that of the state. Yet, whilst we all tend to think we know what we’re talking about when we refer to the state, it is a notoriously difficult concept to define. Since the seve nteenth century, when the term was first widely deployed, the concept of the state has been
Jul 30, 2018 · This chapter explores the concept of the state, looking at various theories of the state and identifying its major characteristics and then how far real states measure up to these characteristics. It identifies different 'types' of state in political theory and looks at the major challenges to practical state sovereignty in the modern world. The challenges include the structure of ...
Aug 24, 2021 · The basic principle is that of continuity in the identity of the State, a principle whose intensity depends on the changes that may occur in its constituent elements: 1. Variations in sovereignty over the territory. 2. Changes in the population, by modifying the sovereignty in a territory, or by migratory movements. 3.
- alfonso.iglesias@uam.es
Feb 23, 2011 · The concept of the state as a central point of reference is obviously important as well as widespread – in the UN, in sociology (which presupposes national societies), and in Rawls. But given the fact that we do not know much about the state – where it comes from, how it functions, what we can demand of it – we have not got far in analysing the state.
- Brian Barry, Marcel Wissenburg
- 2011
Jan 16, 2018 · My aim in this concluding chapter is to situate Hobbes's theory of the state within a broader historical framework. As I argued in chapter 9, Hobbes's theory of political representation issues in the conclusion that to speak of a sovereign is to refer to a natural person (or body of persons) authorised to discharge the role of representing the person ‘by Fiction’ of the state.
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The state, at least the modern state as defined here, is an historical product, which first emerged in some countries of the Northwest; the history of these processes is important not only per se but also because it has influenced, both by diffusion and by sheer exercise of power by Northwestern countries, state formation in the rest of the world.
