Governed Society

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A Governed Society is a human society with a sovereign/government (that possesses a monopoly on legitimate coercion) that exercises power over a defined territory.



References

2015

  1. See: Black's Law Dictionary, 4th ed., West Publishing Co., (1968), and Uricich v. Kolesar, 54 Ohio App. 309, 7 N.E. 2d 413.
  2. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, (1651); http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/pdf/hobblev2.pdf; accessed 28 November 2008.

2014

  1. For example the Vichy France (1940-1944) officially referred to itself as l'État français.
  2. https://mises.org/pdf/anatomy.pdf


2012

  • (Fukuyama, 2012) ⇒ Francis Fukuyama. (2012). “The Strange Absence of the State in Political Science.” In: The American Interest.
    • QUOTE: It is a curious fact that in contemporary American political science, very few people want to study the state, that is, the functioning of executive branches and their bureaucracies. Since the onset of the Third Wave of democratizations now more than a generation ago, the overwhelming emphasis in comparative politics has been on democracy, transitions to democracy, human rights, ethnic conflict, violence, transitional justice, and the like. There is of course interest in stability, but primarily as the absence of violence and conflict. Studies of non-democratic countries focus on issues like authoritarian persistence, meaning that the focus still remains the question of democracy in the long run or democratic transition. In other words, most people are interested in studying political institutions that limit or check power — democratic accountability and rule of law — but very few people pay attention to the institution that accumulates and uses power, the state.

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