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Weber claims that the state’s legitimacy rests on the chance that people will follow its commands as a given source of power. 4 In other words, a state’s legitimacy depends on the probability that those within in it will, in theory, abide by all of its commands. How do states accomplish the task of ensuring that its people will obey its ...
Nov 5, 2011 · Summary. Power constitutes an important aspect of our lives in society. It is a feature of our personal relationships and everyday interactions. It would be difficult to envisage a society from which all forms of power are excluded. It represents a phenomenon which most people intuitively understand but find it difficult to precisely define.
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The concept of power derives its meanings and theoretical roles from the theories in which it is embedded. Hence, there is no one concept of power, no single understanding of power, even if these understandings stand in relation to each other.
to, and definition of, the state in more contemporary state theory. We show how the Weberian understanding of the state continues to exert a powerful influence on the traditional triumvirate of state theories pluralism, elite theory and Marxism– . We turn next to the challenge posed to the ascendancy of this mainstream conception of
Roderick Martin (1971), referencing only Dahrendorf and Parsons in his own critique of the Weber definition, apparently assumes that the occurrence of identical phraseology implies a consensus with regard to Weber's meaning. If Dahrendorf's translation of the Power definition is indeed his own translation of the definition in Wirtschaft und ...
- Isidor Wallimann, Nicholas Ch. Tatsis, George V. Zito
- 1977
Dec 6, 2014 · Lenoir is a French politician who served as Secretary of State for Social Action in Valéry Giscard d'Estaing government from 8 June 1974 to 31 March 1978. He was also Director of L'École nationale d'administration (ENA) between 1988 and 1992. The ENA was established in 1945 to create democratized access to senior public servants and provides ...
III. State Capacity as Power At its most general level, the term state capacity refers to the state’s ability to “get things done.” There are several broad definitions in the literature that convey this general meaning: “the capacity of the state … to implement logistically political
