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What are the factors that contribute to state legitimacy and stability? The state is most simply defined as a political association that establishes sovereign jurisdiction within defined territorial borders and exercises authority through a set of permanent institutions. It exercises absolute and unrestricted power, standing above all other associations and groups in society, while having no external oversight into its own actions. In international politics, the state is an autonomous entity, exercising jurisdiction within geographically defined borders. Its institutions are responsible for making and enforcing collective decisions in society and are funded at the public's expense, and it possesses the coercive power to ensure that its laws are obeyed and that transgressors are punished. As Weber puts it, that state has a monopoly of the means of "legitimate violence." Given the state's monopoly of power and ability to control its citizens, it is important that the state has legitimacy. In...

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