1. Definition
1.1. Systems that promote the interests of a particular nation.
2. Basic Structure
2.1. Ethnosymbolism
2.1.1. importance of symbols and values in a nation.
2.2. Primordialism
2.2.1. it comes from biological needs and natural functions.
2.3. Modernism
2.3.1. it is a recent phenomenon that needs recent conditions to exist.
3. Characteristics
3.1. Based on language, territory, and race.
3.2. All loyalty is on one nation.
3.3. The belief that a nation is the best.
3.4. Sovereignity protects the country and its citizens.
3.5. Economy is based on the nation's interests.
3.6. Culture, art, poetry, and other important aspects are nation's pride.
4. Forms of Government
4.1. Nation
4.1.1. People united by interests and same ideals. Can be seen as a "imagined communities.
4.2. State
4.2.1. A government that controls a certain territory.
4.3. Nation-State
4.3.1. Nation governed by its own state; each state has one nation.
5. Other Forms of Government
5.1. Centralism
5.1.1. Form of government in which one central group that decides over the other states. Each state does not have sovereignity.
5.2. Federalism
5.2.1. Form of government in which each state has a certain degree of sovereignity.
5.3. Pure Democracy
5.3.1. Laws do not protect the minorities because they are made by the majorities' will.
5.4. Republic
5.4.1. Each state has their representatives; the laws protect from minority groups to majority ones.
5.5. Dictatorship
5.5.1. Form of government in which one person has the complete power over a nation and its people. The citizens have no participation.