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Modern State Form (ETV_4)
DGIF baseline 2026-1, the latest. Earlier baselines: timemap.
RDF: etv_4.ttl
- Name
modernStateForm- Attribute
- ETV Culture Rule Structure
- Definition
- The existence of a central authority with the monopoly on the legitimate use of force within an existing territory.
- Description
- Modern states define themselves through desacralisation, depersonalisation, and increasing bureaucratisation of authority and power. A typical feature is the formal strengthening of the rights and obligations of the individual, irrespective of his/her integration into local, religious, family-related and other loyalties and networks that were often of importance under the law in the pre-modern state.
- Accepted
- 2016-06-08
- Defined by
- DFDD
- Allowed for
Source: DGIF 2026-1 QEA model, DGIWG. Standard: DGIWG 206-3. Licence: CC BY 4.0, © DGIWG.