PS160 - Lesson 3: Developments in the Concept of the State

Machiavelli

State is the prince, and the prince exercises his authority through the state 

• State tool is a means to exercise something

• ruler

Renaissance

the state is 

• Is not a tool, the power is derived from the people

• people

Rest of the People

• Absolutist states, separate from the ruler and the ruled 

• Separate from the people

Conceptual Abstraction

• Idea, non specific = state is everything and everywhere makes it non specific

Boudreau - State Repression

State repression shape alliance potentials between regime defectors, reform minded elites and mass soc

Movement success or failure depended in both the movement capacity and the state’s resilience

Geddes: Democratic Politics

- economic development increases the likelihood of democratic politics.

Geddes: Authoritarian

authoritarian regimes are more likely to break down during economic crises, though some forms of authoritarianism are more susceptible to economic downturns than others.

Przeworski & Limongi: Role of State in Modernization

Democratic Transitions occur randomly

There is no causal relationship between democratic transition and increase GDP per capita

Liberal Democracy

democracy that would not infringe the rights of humans 

Democracy

is a process, not an endgame

Why Nordic Countries are Rich

industrialize and make better roads, infrastructure. looking out for each other and investing and reinvesting to the people.

TriHelix Model of Development

collab between state, society, institutions lead to good outcome

Boudreau - Historical Institutionalism

patterns of state repression influence the institutions (Schurman 1989)

Boudreau - Radicalism and Activism

s.r can lead to radicalism and destroy activism

Burma

Ne Win

Indonesia

Suharto

Philippines

Marcos

Geddes: Regime Type

Regime type is dichotomous when in-between categories exist (partial demorcacy)

Lipset

as societies evolve economically, society no longer tolerate repressive political regimes

Transitions Affect Both State and Society

countries are more likely to be democratic, the higher the level of economic development, but not a pre req

Acemoglu: Historical Institutionalism

places the primacy of political institutions in determining outputs and outcomes

inclusive = growth

extractive (authoritarian) = short term growth

George Lakey

Viking Economics

Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos

F.M