Governance and Violence

This background paper addresses four questions. They may seem to be independent, but I hope to show they are closely connected. The questions are: 1) What did Weber say when he defined the modern state as the organization with a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence? 2) What conceptual framewo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wallis, John
Format: Background Paper
Language:English
English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27044