Examples of monopoly in the following topics:
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- Max Weber conceived of the state as a monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force.
- In order to maintain a monopoly on legitimate violence, states must limit the means by which others may carry out violent acts.
- Max Weber, in Politics as a Vocation, conceived of the state as a monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force.
- Such a monopoly, according to Weber, must occur via a process of legitimation.
- States may maintain a monopoly on legitimate violence but outsource its execution by contracting with private parties such as Blackwater.
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- By the "monopoly on violence," Weber means the state is the only institution within a society who can legitimately exercise violence on society's members.
- The formal means of social control and the monopoly on violence serve a similar role in defining the state—they both illustrate the unique relationship between the state and its subjects.
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- The prerequisites for the modern Western state are the monopoly by a central authority of the means of administration and control; the monopoly of legislative authority; and the organization of officialdom, dependent upon the central authority.
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- Laissez-faire policy led to corporate monopolies and a vast gap between the wealth of capitalist business owners and wage laborers.
- This era of loose regulation gave way to an era of tight regulation of the economy, including the introduction of "trust-busting" or anti-monopoly laws.
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- Power is therefore maintained by the middle-class, perpetuating their monopoly on resources.
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- Monopolies are sometimes granted to state-controlled entities, such as the Royal Charter granted to the East India Company, or privileged bargaining rights to unions (labor monopolies) with very partisan political interests.
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- Patriarchy is a social structure in which men are considered to have a monopoly on power and women are expected to submit.
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- Furthermore, without competition, a monopoly or cartel may develop.
- A monopoly occurs when a firm supplies the total output in the market.
- Many countries have competition laws and anti-trust laws that prohibit monopolies and cartels from forming.
- In many capitalist nations, public utilities (communications, gas, electricity, etc), are able to operate as a monopoly under government regulation due to high economies of scale.
- In the early 20th century, Vladimir Lenin argued that state use of military power to defend capitalist interests abroad was an inevitable corollary of monopoly capitalism.
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- He stated that a culturally diverse society can be dominated by one class who has a monopoly over the mass media and popular culture, and Gramsci argued for a culture war in which anti-capitalist elements seek to gain a dominant voice in the mass media, education, and other mass institutions.
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- Denominations come into existence when churches lose their religious monopoly in a society.