1.   State bureaucracies are responsive to elites who do not occupy formal positions in the state apparatus.

2.   The state bureaucracies created by eighteenth-century absolutism signified the arrival of a universal class pursuing a universal interest.

3.   The state bureaucracy works very closely with firms to implement a comprehensive, collaborative strategy for economic growth.

4.   Together, they come up against an extraordinarily barbaric state bureaucracy and not a few disappointments.

5.   State bureaucracies can tend to stifle enterprise and initiative.

6.   A routine request that got hung up in the meshes of the state bureaucracy.

7.   Claims that the problem will never be solved within the existing cadre of the state bureaucracy.

8.   They are just as real as the class relations to which Marxists give such prominence or to the state bureaucracies which Weberians emphasise.