Presented by Ashna Sisodia

§ Garner è political science begins and ends with

state.
§ What is a State? It represents Authority or a
system of governance or Legitimate power.

Roman Supranational
City State Empire Nation State (EU)
 § Sovereignty è defining of modern nation state

Territory § Theory of Sovereignty :

§ Modern concept associated with rise of
modern nation state
1. Monistic Theory of Sovereignty – John
Population Austin
2. Pluralistic Theory of Sovereignty – Laski
and Maciver
§ Moderate Pluralist – Laski
Government § Extreme Pluralist - Maciver

Sovereignty
 Three
perspectives

Transformati
Globalists State Centric onalists

Kenichi Robert David Held

Ohame Gylpin

Marshall Ethan
Mcluhan Kapstein

Susan
Strange
 Origin of State - Social
contract

Functions - 2 schools
Liberal Theory of thought - Minimal
and welfare

Nature of State -
Equilibrium Maker

Theories

origin of State -
Force Theory

Functions of State -
Marxist Theory Instrument of
Coercion

Nature of State -
Class Institution
 Lenin

Instrumentalists Karl Marx

Ralph Miliband

Marxism
Karl Marx

Gramsci
Structuralists/Relative
Autonomy
Althusser

Nicos Poulantzas
Which states States under Colonialism or imperialism - Third world
are called countries
Post-
Colonial ? Is USA a post colonial state ? No

What is Colonialism ? Marxist Discourse

situation of dependency which denotes unequal

exchange
 Formalism

Poly Communalism

Poly Normativism

Prismatic Societies Functional

Overlapping
F.W. Riggs
Attainment Norms

Bazaar Canteen
System

SALA Model

Heterogenity
 cannot
India as soft remove
state
poverty

Lawlessness
corruption and
and Gandhian Corruption -
method Indian
Culture
§ Given by Robert Dahl.
§ Wanted to examine C. Wright Mill’s view about
democracy in USA.
§ Wright Mill è USA is Oligarchy and decision
making is concentrated in the hands of power
Elites.
§ Conducted Field Survey è New Heaven in
Connecticut State in USA
§ Polyarchy è Deformed Polyarchy (with
Charles Lindblom)
§ Catherine McKinnon è There is no feminist
theory of the state.
§ Personal is Political
§ When I look at the state, state appears male to
me
§ Iris Marion Young – Differentiated Citizenship