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What is a STATE? according to TILLY? |
An organisation that controls the population within a specific territory. (organised with rules, roles and resources all working as one) - Control population - differentiation - fixed territory - autonomous - centralised - sovereignity |
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What is a NATION? |
- A distinctive collective entity on grounds other than political -- Related to ethnic community, population of a given state share commonalities which make them more than just a population. |
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What is DEMOCRATIC LETITIMATION? |
-State claims to uphold politically the other commonalities that bind the people together -Sees it constituency within the people and that the service that it gives the people is justified -Meets peoples political demands |
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What is CITIZENSHIP? |
General equal entitlements vested within the individuals with respect to the state. - Citizens have political roles within the state which allows them to affect the outcome and acts of the state itself. |
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What is LAW? |
-controls the allocation of control over goods - repress 'anti-social' conduct within the nation can shape the political process but loses the autonomy from the rulers law and politics must always work together
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What is BUREAUCRACY? |
is an organisation made up of many departments and divisions that are administered by lots of people. |
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What does Anthony Smith (Perennialist) argue/ state? |
1. Nationalism comes in many forms - different ideologies and mvoenements 2. Nations are a real and powerful sociological phenomena 3. Nationalism is an ideological movement for the attainment and maintanence of autonomy // a territorial community of shared history and culture 4. Nationalism was a product of preexisting traditions and heritages 5. People developed nationlism themselves - population shares historic territory -->Modernism does not connect the historical and cultural ties -> based on culture, ethnosymbolism, religion, tradition |
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What does Benedict Anderson argue / state? |
-> All nations are imagined, sovereignity - limited -> sovereignity - currency of modern political system -> limited -> there are boarders
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What does Ernest Gellner argue/ state? |
- Nation is a product of specifically modern conditions //early industrialism, social mobility, need for mass literacy, public education
- Nation was constructed by elites during industrialization to mobilize masses (workforce, social mobility) Nations make man and nations are the artefacts of men's convictions and loyalties and solidarities. - voluntary nationhood -> recognize differences and accept them - involuntary nationhood -> mass culture -> same category -> england + industrialisation
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What is a NATIONSTATE? |
An integration of the political power (state) into a greater social whole (Nation+ state)
Poggi- economic regulation adds a new dimension? |
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What is Poggis' revised definition of a MODERN STATE? (Nationstate) |
- Nationhood - Bureaucratic organisation - Democratically legitimised - Citizenship |
