Practice question · True or false
Tilly's comparison of state-making to organised crime is a rhetorical flourish rather than an analytic claim.
Hints
- He is asking what actually distinguishes the two.
- The differences he identifies are legitimacy and duration, not structure.
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False
Why
False: it is meant analytically. Both offer protection against a danger the protector partly constitutes; what separates them is legitimacy and durability rather than structure. Treating it as a flourish loses the uncomfortable question the comparison exists to pose.
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