nation state

Examples of nation state in the following topics:

• Characteristics of the State

  • To understand the differences between state and nation, consider an example like Poland.
  • Thus, at times, members of the Polish nation have been governed by different states.
  • Today, Poland's boundaries roughly align with the geographical area where the people of the Polish nation live, and thus Poland can be thought of as a nation state.
  • The nation state is a state that self-identifies as deriving its political legitimacy from serving as a sovereign entity for a nation as a sovereign territorial unit.
  • The term nation state implies that the two geographically coincide.

• New State Spaces

  • States are not necessarily the same as nations.
  • New state spaces are redefining borders, and they may not be ruled by national governments.
  • For the last couple centuries, states have been largely coterminous with nations: the two tend to overlap.
  • But states are not necessary the same as nations, and state boundaries will not necessarily always be the same as national boundaries.
  • State power is not restricted to the national level.

• Democracy in the U.S.

  • The United States is a federal constitutional republic in which the federal government shares sovereignty with the state governments.
  • The United States is a federal constitutional republic in which the President of the United States (the head of state and government), Congress, and judiciary share powers reserved to the national government, and the federal government shares sovereignty with the state governments.
  • Within the federal government, officials are elected at the federal (national), state and local levels.
  • On a national level, the President is elected indirectly by the people through an Electoral College.
  • Periodically, several other third parties achieve relatively minor representation at the national and state levels.

• Citizenship Rights

  • In the United States, citizens have certain rights and responsibilities, as defined in the U.S.
  • In the United States, citizens have certain rights and responsibilities, as defined in the U.S.
  • Legally, citizenship denotes a link between an individual and a state.
  • A person who does not have citizenship in any state is stateless.
  • A person is generally presumed to be a citizen of a nation if one or both of their parents are also a citizen of said nation; this is often called jus sanguinis (Latin legal term), meaning "right of blood. " A jus sanguinis policy means grants citizenship based on ancestry or ethnicity, and is related to the concept of a nation state common in Europe.

• State Formation

  • Thus, states, as an institution, were a social invention.
  • Political sociologists continue to debate the origins of the state and the processes of state formation.
  • An alternative theory of state formation focuses on the rise of more modern nation-states and explains their rise by arguing they became necessary for leveraging the resources necessary to fight and defend against wars.
  • Tilly examined political, social, and technological change in Europe from the Middle Ages to the present and attempted to explain the unprecedented success of the nation-state as the dominant form of state on Earth.
  • Since then, states have continued to grow more rational and bureaucratic, with expanding executive bureaucracies, such as the extensive cabinet system in the United States.

• Corporations and Corporate Power

  • Corporations have powerful legal rights, and some have revenues that exceed the revenues of sovereign nations.
  • Often, a corporation is legally a citizen of the state (or other jurisdiction) in which it is incorporated.
  • Some multinational corporations are very large, with revenues that exceed some nation's national revenues.
  • Scholars have pointed out that multinationals have had a long history of interference in the policies of sovereign nation states.
  • This is a state effort to transfer technology to local entrepreneurs.

• Monarchy

  • A monarchy is a form of government in which supreme power is absolutely or nominally lodged with an individual, who is the head of state.
  • Currently, 44 nations in the world have monarchs as heads of state.
  • Of these, 16 are Commonwealth realms such as Canada and Australia that recognize the monarch of the United Kingdom as their head of state.
  • Monarchy was the most common form of government into the 19th century, but it is no longer prevalent, at least at the national level.
  • Currently, 44 nations in the world have monarchs as heads of state.

• Industrialized Countries

  • In countries such as the United States, with well-developed industries, residents have consistent access to electricity, roads, and other infrastructure that improves their standard of living.
  • An industrialized country, also commonly referred to as a developed country, is a sovereign state with a highly developed economy relative to other nations.
  • Developed countries, which include such nations as the United States, France, and Japan, have higher GDPs, per-capita incomes, levels of industrialization, breadth of infrastructure, and general standards of living than less developed nations.
  • Often, national income or gross domestic product (GDP) are used alone to measure how prosperous a nation's economy is.
  • Thus, HDI is often used to predict trends in a nation's development.

• Health Care in the U.S.

  • The United States is alone among developed nations with the notable absence of a universal healthcare system.
  • Current estimates put U.S. healthcare spending at approximately 16% of GDP, second highest to East Timor (Timor-Leste) among all United Nations member nations.
  • The United States pays twice as much, yet lags behind other wealthy nations in such measures as infant mortality and life expectancy.
  • Currently, the United States has a higher infant mortality rate than most of the world's industrialized nations.
  • According to the United States Census Bureau, in 2009, there were 50.7 million people in the United States (16.7% of the population) who were without health insurance.

• The Political Participation of Women

  • Women make up a very small percentage of elected officials, both at local and national levels.
  • Women make up a very small percentage of elected officials, both at local and national levels.
  • The amendment stated, "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."
  • In the United States, the National Organization for Women (NOW) was created in 1966 with the purpose of bringing about equality for all women.
  • Women make up a very small percentage of elected officials, both at local and national levels.