CULTURES AND INSTITUTIONS

Cultures and Institutions

Cultures and Institution

Articulation of Response (clarity, organization, mechanics)

According to some schools of political science, a nation-state characterized by an area clearly defined a population constant, although not fixed, and a government. The progress of the modern state was only a displacement of the earliest institutions, but its complete renovation, its dominance with the new authorities of the nation, creating a new social order (liberal, bourgeois and capitalist), by eliminating the old feudal forms of feudal origin of the Old Regime through a triple revolutionary process: libertarian revolution, bourgeois revolution and the industrial revolution.

However, the process was far from an immediate revolution, as though there were periodic revolutionary outbursts (Revolt in Flanders, English Revolution, American Revolution, French Revolution, 1820 Revolution, 1830 Revolution, Revolution of 1848) as process of long-term, what occurred was a slow evolution and transformation of the feudal monarchies. First became repressive monarchies and then in absolute monarchies, that during the Old Regime were shaping the personality of nations and states based on changing social and territorial alliances of the monarchy, both monarchies each other like monarchy within: social with the rising bourgeoisie and the privileged classes, and in space with the maintenance or infringement of the privileges and territorial, local authorities (privileges). The rationalism created the idea of "citizen", the individual who recognizes the State as the legal field. It created a system of law uniform throughout the territory and the idea of "legal equality".

Question 1

A1. Characteristics of Modern Nation-State

The most important characteristic of a modern nation state might be that the state has conquered the autonomous authority over its country. The factors such as closed borders, national group's too small and complex historical processes, it is impractical (as the political outlook, economic and social development of modern states) reintegrate the sovereignty or permit the emergence of alternative nations smaller than those that make to modern states. The identification of the national state with the domestic market of sufficient size to allow the bourgeoisie, the development of the capitalist market in the period of development of the industrial revolution (nineteenth century), concurrent with the period known as nationalism, which initiated contemporary nationalist movements (Anderson, 1991).

In a modern nation, state, home political bodies, which might make up barriers to the central, state power, have vanished; and as a result, instead of being members of a clan, serfs of a lord, etc., everyone in the state has become an equal and sovereign individual. Even the civil war inside a modern nation state is different from feudal war; it is a disagreement about and fights for the elemental power (Colomer, 2007).

A1a. Examples

Bengal is the ideal example of a state. The people of Bengal are one of the most important ethnic groups in the country of Bangladesh. Moreover, the state of Bengal has a nature based on the territories. It has a very typical structure based on the institutional grounds and has all the authority based on the foundations of the jurisdictional operations in ...