Ep. #13 - The State as a Force Monopolizer - a podcast by Eric Roark

How should we define the state?  On this episode of the egg timer we explore Max Weber's influential attempt to answer this question with the idea that the state is a political association that monopolizes the use of force over a specific territory.  

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