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Max Weber has famously refused to define the state by anything like its substantive purpose or mission. Instead, and given the virtually endless plurality of purposes that the holders of state power have pursued in history, the state can only be defined, Weber thought, in instrumental terms, namely as the supreme power- holder that enjoys the monopoly of physical force over a territorially circumscribed population.
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Offe, C. (2013). Ungovernability. In: Jansen, S., Schröter, E., Stehr, N. (eds) Fragile Stabilität – stabile Fragilität. zu | schriften der Zeppelin Universität. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-02248-8_7
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