In this lecture, we will explore:
1. Concept of state.
2. Max weber on State.
3. State has 4 essential elements which includes Territory, Population, Government and Sovereignty.
4. Hobbes on state and social contract.
5. Locke on state and social contract.
6. Rousseau on state and social contract.
7. Functionalist perspective of Talcott Parsons on state. Polity and Government meeting the functional pre-requisite of Goal Attainment in AGIL model.
8. Marxist perspective of Karl Marx on state.
9. Dictatorship of the proletariat and state.
10. Poulantzas Marxist perspective of capitalist state.
11. Grahmsci on state and hegemony.
12. Louis Althusser Repressive state apparatus and Ideological state apparatus.
13. State and Elite pluralism of Robert Dahl.
14. Elite rule and state.
15. Feminist perspectives of state.
16. Kate Millet and Sylvia Walby on state.

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