This article is about the scholarly study of state formation. For the practice of building up the structures of a state, see State-building. For the related discussion, see Nation-building.
Voters waiting in line to vote in South Sudan (2011) to decide whether to form a new state or remain with Sudan
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E. E. Evans-Pritchard
Wolfgang Fikentscher
Meyer Fortes
Morton Fried
Ernest Gellner
Lesley Gill
Ulf Hannerz
Thomas Blom Hansen
Ted C. Lewellen
Edmund Leach
Ralph Linton
Elizabeth Mertz
Sidney Mintz
Sally Falk Moore
Rodney Needham
Marshall Sahlins
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Elman Service
Aidan Southall
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Eric Wolf
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State formation is the process of the development of a centralized government structure in a situation in which one did not exist. State formation has been a study of many disciplines of the social sciences for a number of years, so much so that Jonathan Haas writes, "One of the favorite pastimes of social scientists over the course of the past century has been to theorize about the evolution of the world's great civilizations."[1]
The study of state formation is divided generally into the study of ancient state formation (those that developed in stateless societies), medieval or early modern state formation, and the study of modern state formation (particularly of the form that developed in Europe in the 17th century and spread around the world). State formation can include state-building and nation-building.
Academic debate about various theories is a prominent feature in fields like anthropology, sociology, economics, and political science.[2] Dominant frameworks emphasize the superiority of the state as an organization for waging war and extracting resources. Prominent theories for medieval, early modern, and modern state formation emphasize the roles of warfare, commerce, contracts, and cultural diffusion in ushering in the state as a dominant organizational form.
Stateformation is the process of the development of a centralized government structure in a situation in which one did not exist. Stateformation has...
different theories and hypotheses regarding early stateformation that seek generalizations to explain why the state developed in some places but not others. Other...
Andhra INC. The government did not make a clear statement about the formation of a new state, despite several strikes and demonstrations by Telugu people. On...
Raja (2008). "The Palestinian War-Torn Economy : Aid, Development and StateFormation". A Contrario (in French). 5 (1): 23–36. doi:10.3917/aco.052.0023....
(2000). StateFormation in Korea: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives. Richmond: Curzon. p. 10. ISBN 9780700713233. Barnes, Gina (2000). State Formation...
known as Telangana Formation Day, is a state public holiday in the Indian state of Telangana, commemorating the formation of the state of Telangana. It...
July 2016. Chanaiwa, David Shingirai (1980). "The Zulu Revolution: StateFormation in a Pastoralist Society". African Studies Review. 23 (3): 1–20. doi:10...
key to effective statehood. State (polity) StateformationState building Capacity-building Müller-Crepon, C. (2021). "State reach and development in Africa...
historians." He published widely across topics such as urban sociology, stateformation, democracy, social movements, labor, and inequality. He was an influential...
the standard enthalpy of formation or standard heat of formation of a compound is the change of enthalpy during the formation of 1 mole of the substance...
Amalendu (December 1983), "The Ahom Political System: An Enquiry into the StateFormation Process in Medieval Assam (1228-1714)" (PDF), Social Scientist, 11...
earlier stateformations (Kamarupa) borrowed political structures from North India that led to Indo-Aryan domination, the Ahom stateformation provided...
supported Telangana stateformation. (f) MIM wants the state to remain united. If division is unavoidable, the party wants a separate state of Rayala-Telangana...
ISBN 9781315509440. Barbara Jelavich (2004). Russia and the Formation of the Romanian National State, 1821–1878. Cambridge UP. p. 288. ISBN 9780521522519. Clive...
period of heightened military conflict and migration associated with stateformation and expansion in Southern Africa. The exact range of dates that comprise...
International Review. 25 (2): 900. George Steinmetz (1999). State/culture: state-formation after the cultural turn. Cornell University Press. p. 231. ISBN 0-8014-8533-9...
The ability of government to issue debt has been central to stateformation and to state building. Public debt has been linked to the rise of democracy...
Retrieved 11 May 2020. Mullard, Saul (2011), Opening the Hidden Land: StateFormation and the Construction of Sikkimese History, BRILL, p. 184, ISBN 978-90-04-20895-7...
became a republic on 26 January 1950. Many states celebrate a state day to mark its formation, statehood, reorganisation or other associated events while...
excited-stateformation may be reaction of the atom or molecule in its excited state, as in photochemistry. Rydberg formula Stationary state Repulsive state Quantum...
first modern stateformation to put this system into practice, and designated the All-Russian Congress of Soviets as the highest organ of state power. Vladimir...
each stressing one over the other. The mainstream view of territorial stateformation emerged around the 12th century as a consequence of the transfer of...
approximately 3200 to 3000 BC. It is the period during which the process of stateformation, which began in Naqada II, became highly visible, with named kings...
EU and IGAD to support a Somali federal government-led three-region stateformation process for the southwestern provinces. On 27 March 2014, 733 delegates...
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