THEORY OF STATE state most important discipline of political science Garner :political science begins and ends with state represents public authority, system of governance Features territory govt population sovereignty autonomy (internal/external) territoriality centralisation of authority Sovereignty (given by Hobbes) pluralistic monistic Sovereignty Monistic Pluralistic Hobbessian (originator) Austinian (proponent) if a determinate human superior, not in habit to like superior, receives habitual obedience, from the bulk of society, than that human superior is sovereign and that society is political society-John Austin based on medieval experience (fragmanted) no internal/external interference (absolute) law as command of sovereign- Austin Max Weber: modern nation state is an institution having monopoly over the use of violence in a particular territory exponents: Laski, MacIver need absolutism led to WW1, WW2 limit power of state- international institutions importance to ...
