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Summary Of: State
A state usually includes the set of... though its status as a state often depends in part on being recognized by a number of other states as having... the state is normally identified with these institutions... The state in classical antiquity... From the feudal state to the modern state in the West... State and civil society... The state and the international system... The state and international law... The state in modern political thought... the modern state system bears a number of characteristics that were first consolidated in western Europe... the term state also refers to political units... the word state became used to refer to both the head of state and the power entity he... but the State will always remain... if it is not legally recognized as a state by other states... Only an entity juridically recognized as a state can enter into many kinds of international agreements and be represented in a variety of... The concept of the state can be distinguished from two related concepts with which it is sometimes confused... It does not include other aspects of the state that may be very important in its everyday functioning... The earliest forms of the state emerged whenever it became possible to centralize power in a durable way... Some political philosophers believe the origins of the state lie ultimately in the tribal culture which developed with human sentience... The state in classical antiquity... The state in classical antiquity... The history of the state in the West usually begins with... the state took a variety of forms... From the feudal state to the modern state in the West... From the feudal state to the modern state in the West... story of the development of the specifically modern state in the West typically begins with the dissolution of the western... This led to the fragmentation of the imperial state into the hands of private and decentralized lords whose political... economic unit of society corresponded exactly to the state on the local level... state in the realm... when the principal features of the contemporary state system took form... the modern state monopolizes the means of... state has been generated... State and civil society... State and civil society... The modern state is both separate from and connected to... subject of considerable attention in both analyses of state development and normative theories of the state... with matters of public interest autonomous from the state and yet necessarily connected with it... have questioned the distinction between the state and civil society altogether... the state can fund a number of groups within society that... of public policy and the extensive connections between state bureaucracies and other institutions... bodies also change the boundaries of the state in relation to society... scientists on whether they are part of the state or civil society... decentralized governance in modern societies rather than of state bureaucracies and direct state control over policy... The state and the international system... The state and the international system... where each state takes into account the behavior of other states when making their own calculations... the state remains the basic political unit of the world... The state is therefore considered the most central concept in the study of... The state and international law... The state and international law... The state as a person of international law should possess the following qualifications... the boundaries of the state sector are not clearly defined... the state is not only the site of conflict between different organizations... often various interests within different parts of the state that are neither solely state... state policy is a product of recurrent bargaining... Marxist theories of the state were relatively influential in continental Europe in the 1960s and 1970s... view that the state is an institution established in the collective interest of society as a whole... the state is not a mere... Nor does the state usually act as merely a... pointed out that the main job of the state is to protect capitalist property rights in the... in this view the state serves those of a small minority of the population... The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie... the state is dominated by an elite that comes from the same background as the capitalist class... State officials therefore share the same interests as owners of capital and are linked to them... But a social connection between state managers and the capitalist class can be seen in the dependence of the major politicians... it is not necessarily the case because state officials consciously strive to do so... position of the state is configured in such a way to ensure that the interests of capital are always... main contribution to the Marxian literature on the state was the concept of... state policies do not correspond exactly to the collective or long... state managers will pull back from anti... forces encourage political unity of the state managers with the capitalist class... influence of capitalists and the societal constraints on state activity play a role... The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie... the state maintains some autonomy... state managers may use their administrative power to serve their own interests and even to facilitate... may push the state from toeing the capitalist... these problems imply that the state will always have some autonomy from obeying the exact wishes of the capitalist class... the Marxian theory of the state does not really contradict the... vision of the state as an arena for the contention of many interest groups... that all of the Marxist theories of the state discussed above refer only to the... Marxian historians have said that the state did not really exist in the sense that it does today... the central state did not monopolize force in a specific geographic area... Marxist theory says that since the state is central to protecting class inequality... impetus for the abolition of the state would not come from the leaders or the government themselves as much as from the... anarchists see the state as a parasite that can and should be abolished... they oppose the state as a matter of principle and reject the Marxian view that it may be needed... Anarchists consider the state to be the institutionalization of domination and privilege... the state emerged to ratify and deepen the dominance of the victors of history... They also reject the need for a state to serve the collective needs of the people... they see the state as an inherently oppressive force which takes away the ability of people to make decisions... Both the Marxist and pluralist approaches view the state as reacting to the activities of groups within society... understanding of the state by scholars who emphasize the autonomy of the state with respect to social forces... asserts that the state is not an... interposing civil society between the economy and the state to explain variation in state forms... suggest that state actors are to an important degree autonomous... state personnel have interests of their own... Since the state controls the means of coercion... of many groups in civil society on the state for achieving any goals they may espouse... state personnel can to some extent impose their own preferences on civil society... of the state from pressures in society determines the power of the state... The state in modern political thought... The state in modern political thought... The rise of the modern state system was closely related to changes in political thought... agreement could take human beings out of the state of nature and into a state of civil society... justify more or less extensive forms of the state as a remedy for the problems of the state of nature... who described the state of nature as a... who understood the state of nature in more positive terms... thought that state power should be strictly limited... of them nevertheless understood the powers of the state to be limited by what rational individuals would agree to in a hypothetical or actual... Lockean state of nature reasoning... the only state that could be justified would be a... centralized state is increasingly out of date... Encyclodia Page On: State
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