POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Evolution, Path Dependence, Protestantism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 110
• Professor: Oded Haklai

Document Summary

Physical force: element of cohesion in modern statehood that modern society accepts: elements of taxation, modern states are able to tax citizens and citizens comply with an extent that are not comparable in other periods of time. Difference in the capability for the state to exercise legitimate use and control. Strong states: able to exercise legitimate use of force. Weak states: internal competitors don"t exercise a monopoly or legitimate use of force. Rivals for territory within territory. (tribal leaders, religious leaders, ethnic group associations, that may have different rules that are inconsistent with rules of state and population abides by those rules instead of state: unwillingness to pay taxation. Regime type/system of government (parliamentary, democracy, military dictatorship, etc. ) Government the body the people that do the governing: narrowest term, those people who occupy the post in the. Cabinet, executive, legislative: terms can conflict/collude: when person in government symbolizes the regime time usually only in dictatorships.