Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Politics and the State
- STATE refers to every human activity (education, economic managment)
- State has a range of things like; collection of institutions, territorial unit, philosophical idea, instrument of coercion or opression
- - Have 4 different ways :
- IDEALIST
- HEGEL identified 3 moments of the "SOCIAL EXISTENCE"
- Family
- Particular altruism
- Civil Society
- Universal egoism
- State
- Ethical community or Universal altruism
- The state in ethical terms
- Distinguish institutions that are:
- Part of the State
- Outside the State
- FUNCTIONALIST
- Role and purpose of the state instititions
- Funtion of teh State
- Mantain the social order
- State as set of institutions
- Uphold order
- Deliver social stability
- Any institutions maintains order
- familiy
- church
- trade unions
- ORGANIZATIONAL
- Apparatus of goverment in its broadest sense
- Set of institutions that are recognizably "PUBLIC"
- Responsable for the collective organizations of social existence
- CIVIL SOCIETY
- BODY POLITIC
- Bureucracy
- army
- Police
- social security system
- INTERNATIONAL
- Actor on the world stage
- Unit of international politics
- 2 faces
- 1. Looking outwards
- Relation with other states
- Ability to PROTECTION against external attacks
- 2. Looking inwards
- Relation with the individual and groups that live within its borders
- Ability to mantain DOMESTIC ORDER
- POLITICS: is the study of the state, the analysis of its institutions, evaluation of its impact on society.
- THEORIES OF THE STATE
- PLURALISM STATE
- CAPITALISM STATE
- LEVIATHAN STATE
- PATRIARCHAL STATE