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2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
In the construction of a state, Legitimacy is everything and nothing. Students of the state have taken a wrong turn by following Max Weber's formulation of the ideal typical state as "a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory "(Gerth and Mills 1946, 78) Although an ideal type can be helpful, the concept can be frozen as an absolute.
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