Tilly

It is interesting because one can see numerous parallels between Tilly and Weber.  Both stress that states are essentially all-growing and all-consuming entities.  This is a course of all states.  Also, both thinkers argue the importance of violence.  Tilly notes that war creates states; Weber insists that at heart, all politics is violence.  Unfortunately, this is a sad by-product of politics and even the most moral politicians will have to swallow this reality.  However, where the two differ is that Tiller stresses violence and Weber talks about bureaucracy.  According to Weber, the lifeline of the state is bureaucracy.  Eventually he insists that the state just will act as a way to provide patronage and its entire existence will be to hold up the job-seekers and corruption of political parties.  The “blood” of the state is the bureaucracy.  Though Tilly also highlights the importance of bureaucracy, the main lifeline for states for him is war.