Reconceptualizing state formation as collective power: representation in electoral monarchies
Peter Haldén
This article deals with the importance of collective power and value consensus among elites for medieval polity formation by analyzing electoral monarchies. State theory focuses on monopoly legitimate armed force has pushed notions into background. questions material coercive theories state emphasizes through as collaboration ability to act in concert. Royal elections had two major functions: (1) A transfer authority that created trust concord elite groups (2) constructing ideas an abstract ‘realm’ political actors represented which they were accountable ideational symbolic sense. The Holy Roman Empire Sweden.
Journal of Political Power