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Prominent theories for medieval, early modern, and modern state formation emphasize the roles of warfare, commerce, contracts, and cultural diffusion in ushering in the state as a dominant organizational form.
Michel Foucault believed that modern political theory was too state-centric, saying "Maybe, after all, the state is no more than a composite reality and a mythologized abstraction, whose importance is a lot more limited than many of us think." He thought that political theory was focusing too much on abstract institutions, and not enough on the ...
The executive of the modern state is nothing but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. [ 3 ] This represents the high point of conformance of the state theory to an economic interpretation of history in which the forces of production determine peoples' production relations and their production relations determine ...
Although the logic was consistent with the predatory theory of the state in early modern Europe, [7] Herbst's point of view was criticized by several scholars including Richard Joseph who were concerned that the application of the predatory theory was an excessive approach to Darwinism. [8]
Eventually, all states will develop into the type of state form that Tilly calls the nation state. With this theory, Tilly questions previous formulations of state development in Europe, arguing that they are unsuccessful in explaining the great variety in kinds of states that have prevailed at different stages of European history since AD 990.
Tilly’s predatory theory of the state steps away from smaller scale internal conflicts between citizens themselves. [28] In “War Making and State Making of Organized Crime”, Tilly describes the sovereign as dishonest, as ”governments themselves commonly simulate, stimulate, or even fabricate threats of external war”.
For Mann, “modern states formally monopolize the means of military violence” but that does “not end the autonomy of military power organization.” [16] In his theory of the state, Mann defines the state with four attributes: "The state is a differentiated set of institutions and personnel
In the period of the eighteenth century, usually called the Enlightenment, a new justification of the European state developed.Jean-Jacques Rousseau's social contract theory states that governments draw their power from the governed, its 'sovereign' people (usually a certain ethnic group, and the state's limits are legitimated theoretically as that people's lands, although that is often not ...