Reference no: EM132636070

Did War Make the State? From "war making and State making as organized crime" by Charles Tilly.

1. According to Charles Tilly, in what ways is the state like a protection racket? Do you agree? Why or why not?
2. According to Charles Tilly, and , what are the four activities that the state does and what implications do they have for state formation?
3. What is quasi-voluntary compliance(Levi1998)?Why might rulers prefer quasi-voluntary compliance to outright coercion? from "excerpt_levi_of_rule_and_revenue- quasi-voluntary compliance(Levi1998)"

I Want to Play a Game- this one is logic game* you need to have a creative answer of this questions

FIVE PIRATES-A, B, C, D and E-arrive from a lucrative voyage with 100 pieces of gold. They decide to split the loot according to the inviolable Pirates' Code (section III, paragraph two). As we all know, pirates have a strict lead- ership structure: A is the captain, B is the first mate, and so forth down to E, the lowliest deckhand. The gold distribution procedure is a series of proposals with a lethal twist. Here are the rules:

• Thehighest-rankingpirateproposesadistributionofthegoldpieces.
• All the pirates, including the proposer, vote on whether to accept the pro-
• posal. In the case of a tie, the proposer holds the tie-breaking vote.
• Ifatleasthalfofthepiratesagreetotheproposal,itisimplemented.
• Otherwise, the pirate who proposed the distribution must walk the plank to his or her death (in human-eating, ravenous, Jaws-like shark-infested waters, of course).
• Thenexthighest-rankingpiratetakesoverandbecomestheproposer.
• Repeatuntilaproposalisaccepted.
• Pirates care first and foremost about staying alive, then about getting gold.
• YOU ARE THE CAPTAIN (CONGRATULATIONS!). Are you in a strong po- sition? Why or why not?