The State is domination plus the active consent of the ruled

Evidence

If political science means science of the State, and the State is the entire complex of practical and theoretical activities with which the ruling class not only justifies and maintains its dominance, but manages to win the active consent of those over whom it rules, then it is obvious that all the essential questions of sociology are nothing other than the questions of political science. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 915

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: The combined coercion-consent definition of the State — essential to carrying Gramsci forward into hegemony-based analysis of modern exclusion.

Related

• The State is defined by ruling-class activity that secures the consent of the ruled (similarity 0.91)
• State power fuses hegemonic consent with coercive enforcement (similarity 0.85)
• The State is an equilibrium between coercive political society and hegemonic civil society (similarity 0.81)
• The state is an equilibrium of coercion and consent run through civil society (similarity 0.80)
• The state actively educates and organizes the consent it governs by (similarity 0.80)
• All state powers are organs of hegemony in varying degrees (similarity 0.80)
• Domination via coercion alone has limited reach, while leadership requires winning consent. (similarity 0.80)
• Hegemony means intellectuals rule by consent while dictatorship rules by force (similarity 0.80)
• Domination operates through consent won by leadership, not force alone (similarity 0.80)
• Domination relies on coercion while leadership wins consent and subordinate interests. (similarity 0.80)
• Hegemony requires a separation between civil and political society (similarity 0.79)
• Gramsci never separated hegemony and consent from force and domination (similarity 0.78)
• Domination without leadership constitutes dictatorship without hegemony (similarity 0.78)
• Machiavelli’s political theory centers on securing permanent consent through the art of governing. (similarity 0.78)