Politics and the state - Debating the state - The role of the state
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What is the aim of a minimal state?
What are the three core functions of a state according to Locke?
2) Ensure that contracts or agreements are enforced
3) It provides protection against external attacks
What is a developmental state?
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What is economic globalization and competition states and tiger economies?
Competition states : states that pursue strategies to ensure long - term competitiveness in a globalized economy
Tiger economies : Fast growing and export - oriented economies moddeld in Japan -> for example South - Korea, Taiwan and Singaport
What are examples of a developmental state?
- Austria and Germany (economic development has been achieved through the construction of a 'partnership state'.
What is the aim of a social-democratic state?
What is the aim of Keynesian economic policies?
What is the aim collectivized states?
What do collectivized states do and what are good examples?
Example: orthodox communist countries (USSR).
Sought to abolish private enterprise altogether (common ownership over private property)
What the essence of totalitarianism?
What is the essence of totalitarianism?
Everything under state control.
Examples: Hitlers germany, USSR.
Surveillance and terroristic policing + pervasive system of ideological manipulation and control.
They extinguish civil society and abolish the private sphere of life.
Goal is to dissolve individual identity.
What is the difference between totalitarian states and religious states?
What have fundamentalist movements typically looked to do?
What is a religious state?
State religion : A religious body that is officially endorsed by the state, giving it special privileges , but (usually) not formal political authority
What is a difference between for example the Iranian model and the AKP rule (Turkey)?
AKP: religiously orientated government operating in a context that retains a commitment to constitutional secularism.
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