recognize them as such. Definitions of a state are disputed. According to sociologist Max Weber: a "state" is a polity that maintains a monopoly on the legitimate...

Free state is a term occasionally used in the official titles of some states throughout the world with varying meanings depending on the context. In principle...

resource-manipulating organizational structure. A polity like a state does not need to be a sovereign unit. The preeminent polities today are Westphalian states and nation-states...

Look up State, state, or States in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. State most commonly refers to: State (polity), a centralized political organization...

Ecclesiastical polity is the government of a church. There are local (congregational) forms of organization as well as denominational. A church's polity may describe...

An episcopal polity is a hierarchical form of church governance ("ecclesiastical polity") in which the chief local authorities are called bishops. The...

Presbyterian (or presbyteral) polity is a method of church governance ("ecclesiastical polity") typified by the rule of assemblies of presbyters, or elders...

Look up polity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A polity is, broadly, any kind of political grouping. Polity may also refer to: Polity (publisher)...

monarchs in Indonesia is inadequate. In some instances below, pre-colonial polities have been restored, and the royal titles of their leaders have been nominally...

A federated state (also state, province, region, canton, land, governorate, oblast, emirate, or country) is a territorial and constitutional community...

Statecraft may refer to: Statecraft (game), a card game The politics of a state (polity) The use of power in international relations Statecraft: Strategies...

divided into 16 traditional polities. The 16-seat Council of Chiefs, made up of the traditional chiefs from each constituent state, is an advisory body to...

Orange Free State, a former Boer Republic (1854–1902) Orange Free State (province), a former province of South Africa (1910–1994) Free state (polity), a term...

their state legislatures, territorial legislatures, or tradition. Some, such as flags, seals, and birds have been created or chosen by all U.S. polities, while...

commonly referenced unit of analysis, considered to be a society is the state (polity) (i.e. country). At meso level, common units of observation include...

development of the welfare state. In political science, it has long been a goal to create a typology or taxonomy of polities, as typologies of political...

World polity theory (also referred to as world society theory, global neo-institutionalism, and the Stanford school of global analysis) is an analytical...

Peer-polity interaction is a concept in archaeological theory, developed by Colin Renfrew and John Cherry, to explain changes in society and material culture...

to their lack of international recognition. When referring to a specific polity, the term "country" may also refer to a constituent country, or a dependent...

confederation or some other composite polity State (disambiguation) Constitution (disambiguation) Federated state Confederated state This disambiguation page lists...

Chinese civilization state (during marked time stamp). Podcast about Christopher Coker's book The Rise of the Civilizational State (Polity Press, 2019)...

Wahhabism. The caliphate, understood in Islamic law as the ideal Islamic polity uniting all Muslim territories, does not figure much in traditional Najdi...

the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental...

and political) Public administration Red tape Requisite organization State (polity) Technocracy Compare: "Bureaucracy - Definition and More from the Free...

The Polity data series is a data series in political science research. Along with the V-Dem Democracy indices project and Democracy Index (The Economist)...

state.... The deliberations in common will offer no violence to the sovereignty of each member". Under a confederation, compared to a federal state,...

officially the State of Chinland, is a self-governing polity in Southeast Asia. Its claimed territory encompasses Myanmar's Chin State. It controls nearly...

writing on the commodity abstraction recognizes a parallel process. The state (polity) as both concept and material practice exemplifies the two sides of...

effective statehood. State (polity) State formation State building Capacity-building Enforcement Müller-Crepon, C. (2021). "State reach and development...

Ecclesiastical jurisdiction Political division State (polity) Sovereign state Federated state State law Change of venue Beale, Joseph H. (1935) A Treatise...