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As far as I know, no definition of "government" requires it to have monopoly on force. A "state" as defined by Weber should have it, but Weber's own definition
by emteycz 5y ago
As far as I know, no definition of "government" requires it to have monopoly on force. A "state" as defined by Weber should have it, but Weber's own definition says governments and states are separate things - especially in a multi-layered system like the EU (Wikipedia lists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois#Iroquois_Confederacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois#Iroquois_Confederacy as an example of this situation).