Politics and the State

STATE refers to every human activity (education, economic managment)
1. State has a range of things like; collection of institutions, territorial unit, philosophical idea, instrument of coercion or opression
  1. - Have 4 different ways :
    1. IDEALIST
      1. HEGEL identified 3 moments of the "SOCIAL EXISTENCE"
        Family
        Particular altruism
        Civil Society
        Universal egoism
        State
        Ethical community or Universal altruism
      2. The state in ethical terms
        Distinguish institutions that are:
        Part of the State
        Outside the State
    2. FUNCTIONALIST
      1. Role and purpose of the state instititions
        Funtion of teh State
        Mantain the social order
      2. State as set of institutions
        Uphold order
        Deliver social stability
        Any institutions maintains order
        familiy
        church
        trade unions
    3. ORGANIZATIONAL
      1. Apparatus of goverment in its broadest sense
      2. 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
    4. INTERNATIONAL
      1. Actor on the world stage
      2. 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
1. PLURALISM STATE
2. CAPITALISM STATE
3. LEVIATHAN STATE
4. PATRIARCHAL STATE

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