Joel S. Migdal defines using an ideal-typical definition of the state as an organization, composed of numerous agencies guided and coordinated by the state leadership that has the capacity or authority to create and implement rules binding on all people as well as regulatory parameters for other social organizations in a given territory, using force if necessary to prevail. He states that a state's ability to survive depends on several factors but, above all, on its ability to mobilize the society's population. This involves funneling people into specialized organizational structures that allow state leaders to build stronger armies, collect more taxes, and complete other complicated tasks (Migdal). Social control, Migdal describes, involves the successful subordination of people's social behavioral inclinations or behavior sought by other social organizations in favor of behavior prescribed by state rulers. Migdal, like Robert I. Rotberg, both reference Michael Mann's concept of infrastructural power, the need for a cooperative relationship between the state and the people. According to Robert I. Rotberg, weak states are characterized as: intrinsically weak due to geographic factors, fundamental physical or economic constraints. He adds that it is often the effect of an internal conflict. Public goods and people's needs are not satisfied or the state decreases its ability to provide. Migdal describes a weak state as characterized by a strong society in which the state lacks social control. Colombia, while maintaining an electoral democracy, is considered a weak state. Rotberg argues that Colombia is a weak and even failing state. Colombia only controls two-thirds… half of the document… Terrorism 32.4 (2009): 322-345. Academic ResearchPremier. Network. 04 December 2013.Migdal, Joel S.. Strong societies and weak states: state-society relations and state capacity in the Third World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UniversityPress, 1988. Print.Osada-Carbo, Eduardo. "Newspapers, Politics, and Elections in Colombia, 1830-1930." Historical Journal 53.4 (2010): 939-962. Academic ResearchPremier. Network. 05 December 2013.Rabasa, Angelo and Peter Chalk. "Sources of instability". Colombian labyrinth: The synergy between drugs and insurgency and its implications for regional stability. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2001. 1-9. Print.Rotberg, Robert I. “Failed States, Collapsed States, Weak States: Causes and Indicators.” When states fail: causes and consequences. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. 1-25. Press.