Before revision: A polity is a term for an identifiable political entity, defined as a group of people with a collective identity, who are organized by some form of institutionalized social relations, and have a capacity to mobilize resources.Ferguson, Yale; Mansbach, Richard W. (1996).
After revision: A polity is an identifiable political entity, defined as a group of people with a collective identity, who are organized by some form of institutionalized social relations, and have a capacity to mobilize resources.Ferguson, Yale; Mansbach, Richard W. (1996).