POL 2104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Protection Racket, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Asymmetric Federalism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2104
• Professor: Stephen Brown

Document Summary

For most people around the world, the term state refers to centralized authority or localized power. An organization that maintains a monopoly of violence over a territory but that is also a set of political institutions that help create and implement policies to resolve con ict. Has sovereignty, which refers to the ability to carry out actions and policies within its territory independent of external actors. Passes and enforces laws, de nes and protects rights, resolves disputes between and among people and organizations. Provides security for its subjects by limiting the danger of an external attack as well as internal crime and disorder. Serves as a set of institutions that society deems necessary to achieve basic goals. Is viewed by the citizens as legitimate, vital, and appropriate. Is the machinery of politics; establishing order and turning politics into policy. A regime is de ned as the fundamental rules and norms of politics.