POLS 110 Study Guide - Final Guide: Commonwealth Realm, Gerontocracy, Confederation Bridge
16 Apr 2013
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Governance: universal concept, exercise of power and decision making for the community (legitimate) Institutions created to undertake the process of governance. Defines the community: draws boundaries and defines who is a citizen. Maintains order: enforces rules, reproduces itself. Needed for a state to perform its functions (can"t do by power alone) Universal tendency to associate name and identity to supreme political authority: e. g. Nswt (name for pharaoh), oba, pontifex, maximux, consul, president. Locus of supreme political authority located in particular institution or individual. Not well articulated until making of the modern state. Supreme and legally unbound power over citizens and subject people (jean bodin 1567) Independence: the ability to make decisions indigenously: autonomy: the ability to make decisions as one pleases. Grew from contradictions of how political authority was organized in europe. Idea was conceived during domestic wars, put in place during 30 years war: from defenestration of prague (may 1618) to the peace of westphalia (oct 1648)
