Problems of the Liberal-Democratic State: An Historical Overview

Autor:	S. E. Finer
Rok vydání:	1990
Předmět:	Antecedent (grammar) History Public Administration Sociology and Political Science State (polity) Feudalism media_common.quotation_subject Long period Economic history Fall of man Democracy Roman Empire media_common
Zdroj:	Government and Opposition. 25:334-358
ISSN:	1477-7053 0017-257X
DOI:	10.1111/j.1477-7053.1990.tb00588.x
Popis:	Revisionist opinion notwithstanding, in my view the Roman empire in the West really did collapse, the European Dark Ages really were dark, and the feudal regna which painfully emerged from them were not ‘states’ in the sense of the term that we use today. A thousand years had to elapse after the fall of Rome for what we nowadays call ‘the modern European state’ to appear. I would like to stress that Europe did not, as some persons have maintained, invent ‘the state’. Europe re-inuented it after that long period of breakdown, followed by near-anarchy and then feudalism; but what it re-invented was in many respects unlike any antecedent — or contemporary — state-form anywhere else in the world. This state-form has now become the world-wide unit of affairs. It was original in three major respects.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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