...University Press on behalf of the International African Institute, 1940, 1950 edition) p. 79. munity that 'successfully' claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. Specifically, at the present time, the right to use force is ascribed to other institutions...

...University Press on behalf of the International African Institute, 1940, 1950 edition) p. 79. munity that 'successfully' claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force with a given territory. Specifically, at the present time, the right to use force is ascribed ; other...

...rejecting an exclusive orientation to the state. When they apply Weber's definition of the state, ie 'a human community that (successfully) claims the...the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory', they do not comment on the narrow value focus of this approach.8 The domain of state action...

...condition would emerge that could be designated as 'anarchy,' in the specific sense of this word. ... A state is a human community that (successfully) claims...the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. . . . Hence, 'polities' for us means striving to share power or striving to influence the...

...immediately narrows "every political association" to "the state": "force is a means peculiar to the state ... a state is a human community that (successfully) claims...the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory" (1958a:78, emphasis removed). Of the "inner justifications" upon which "domination" may...

...choice."52 THE STATE The most often quoted sociological definition of the state is that of Weber — "A state is a human community that (successfully)...the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory."53 This definition centers on the means by which state power is sustained, revealing physical...

...rather a way, involving certain areas of our lives, that individuals act and react with one another. A state is a human community that successfully claims the monopoly of legitimate physical force within a given territory. "Can you follow me?" he asked. "I believe so,"...

...number of eminent social scientists have sought to answer this question. Max Weber, for instance, argued that a state is a 'human community that (successfully)...the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory' (Gerth and Mills 1970: 78). Michael Mann (1984) has built on this definition by arguing...

...cooperation - it is force. Max Weber refined the sociological understanding in his noted definition: A state is a human community that (successfully) claims...the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. . . . The right to use physical force is ascribed to other institutions or to individuals...

...authoritarian power of command and these commands must be backed up with the threat of violence. Thus 'the state is a human community that (successfully) claims...the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory' (Weber 1991: 78). Violence is linked with administration in the sense that the state claims...