35 min
STATES AND WELFARE STATES - discussion with Paul Spicker about his new book from Policy Press STATECRAFT
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- Politics
Traditional debates in political science about states and governments have focussed on fairly abstract definitions, usually starting from Max Weber's definition of the state as a “human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.”Paul suggests this is clearly inadequate to discussing modern states and in any case is a simplification of what Weber actually said.Join us for what was, for me anyway, a fascinating discussion ...
Traditional debates in political science about states and governments have focussed on fairly abstract definitions, usually starting from Max Weber's definition of the state as a “human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.”Paul suggests this is clearly inadequate to discussing modern states and in any case is a simplification of what Weber actually said.Join us for what was, for me anyway, a fascinating discussion ...
35 min