Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these steps of Tilly's account in the order the mechanism runs.
- Rulers extract resources from the population at a new scale
- Bargaining with taxpayers produces representative institutions
- Rulers compete militarily
- An administrative apparatus is built to do the extracting
- War becomes far more expensive
Hints
- The mechanism starts with competition, not with a plan to build a state.
- The apparatus is built because the money is needed, and the bargaining follows.
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- Rulers compete militarily
- War becomes far more expensive
- Rulers extract resources from the population at a new scale
- An administrative apparatus is built to do the extracting
- Bargaining with taxpayers produces representative institutions
Why
The order is the argument. Nobody in the sequence intends to build a state, they intend to win a war and need money, and the machinery assembled for that purpose is what a state turns out to be. This is why the sequence explains an outcome nobody designed.
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