| Politics (CONTEXT) | The word politics is derived from the Greek word Politika which is associated with the affairs of the city. |
| State (FEATURES) (mention 4) | A state exercise absolute and unrestricted power in their society.
Have institutions that make responsible decisions in society.
These decisions are usually accepted and binding on its citizens.
And the state is an instrument in domination, it has coercive power to ensure the citizens obey these decisions
Has to be recognized internationally |
| Sovereignty (DISTINCTIONS) | Legal and political sovereignty. Legal sovereignty refers to the supreme legal authority which is defined by law. And political sovereignty refers to the political power which is the ability to command obedience by using force.
External and internal sovereignty. External sovereignty refers to the states place in the international order and internal sovereignty refers to the state's supreme authority within the state bodies that makes decisions |
| Strong vs Weak States (EXAMPLE) | China vs Monaco |
| Traditional vs Charismatic vs Rational-Legal Authority (CONTEXT) | According to Max Webber, these 3 authority's are derived from legitimacy. Authority is the right to have power. The right to rule and make decisions. |
| Legitimacy (DEFINITION) | Legitimacy is the transformation of power into authority whereby the belief and willingness to comply with this transformation is accepted |
| Legitimacy(CONTEXT) | Legitimacy is about the judgement and consent of the citizens about the rightfulness that the government governs its citizens. Legitimacy is recognizable in democratic countries where the people elect their leaders and parliament. |
| Politics (DEFINITION) | Politics is the public activity through which people make, preserve and amend the general rules under which they live. |
| Politics (NOTIONS) (mention 4) | The art of government and activities of the state.
The struggle for power and leadership in the public sphere to make decisions for society.
The process of resolving conflicts because were not alike and have different views, interest and ideologies.
The production and redistribution of resources to achieve the desired outcome. |
| Politics (EXAMPLE) | An example of politics in relation to power and distribution of resources would be your own family or work where resources and power are distributed among the hierarchy that you live in. |
| State (CONTEXT/DEFINITION) | A political association with a government that claims the monopoly of legitimate use of violence via a set of institutions within a defined territorial area on its population. |
| Sovereignty (CONTEXT/DEFINITION) | Sovereignty is the principle of absolute and unlimited power and it gives the ability to act within a territory independently from internal and external rivals. |
| State (EXAMPLE) | The Netherlands who have supreme authority within their state and are independence internationally |
| Monopoly of legitimate violence (CONTEXT) | The monopoly of violence is a definition by Max Webber |
| Monopoly of legitimate violence (DEFINITION) | It means that a state is the only entity that is allowed to use legitimate physical force against its population within its geographical borders. Within the state, there are institutions such as the military or police who have the right to use violence to establish order but only to a certain amount that it doesn't violate the individual rights of a person |
| Monopoly of legitimate violence (EXAMPLE) | The police who are protecting the public safety against internal and external threats. |
| Collective goods (CONTEXT) | The collective goods refer to the distributions and redistribution of resources by the state |
| Collective goods (NOTION) | It's about who gets what, when, how, and why so that it benefits every individual and group of society. So the state provide collective goods and this could be seen as a main function of the state. |
| Collective goods (EXAMPLE) | The infrastructure, law and regulations |
| Unitary vs Federal states (CONTEXT) | In the world, there are different types of classifications of states. One classification is about the territorial organization which looks at how the state organizes its territory |
| Unitary vs Federal states (DEFINITION) | Unitary state are states where the most government power is held at the national level within the central government and the regions have little authority in making decisions.
Federal state are states where there are different layers of government. They have a central and federal/regional government. Hereby the regional/federal government have a significant amount of power in making decisions |
| Unitary vs Federal states (EXAMPLE) | An example of a unitary state would be France who has a central government with the most power and the regional state have very little power.
An example of a federal state would be the USA where the federal states have a significant amount of power and independence. |
| Strong vs Weak States (CONTEXT) | Strong vs Weak States is a classification about the strength of the states |
| Strong vs Weak States (DEFINITION) | The strength of a strong or weak state depends on a variety of factors. These factors are the geographical size, populations, military might, strength of the economy, the robustness of the state institutions and legitimacy. |
| Traditional vs Charismatic vs Rational-Legal Authority (DEFINITION) | Traditional authority is derived from social traditions, customs and history.
Charismatic authority is derived from the power of personality of a person.
Rational-legal authority is derived from formal and legal rules and status of an office |
| Traditional vs Charismatic vs Rational-Legal Authority (EXAMPLE) | Traditional = Willem Alexander
Charismatic = Barack Obama
Rational-Legal = Mark Rutte |
| Legitimacy (EXAMPLE) | The Netherlands where the people believe and accept that the government and authorities have the right to rule and organize society. |
