11.   The state apparatus has become corrupt.

12.   ...its massive state apparatus and bloated bureaucracy.

13.   It attributed this to the prevailing civil war and climatic conditions as well as to deficiencies in state apparatus.

14.   Still more important from our viewpoint is how the state apparatus relates to its citizens.

15.   These are the social functions of contemporary states, even if this perspective overemphasises the oppressive nature of state apparatuses.

16.   Poulantzas has argued, however, that these features of the state apparatus in general and the bureaucracy in particular may not be very significant.

17.   Perry Anderson has shown that the importance of bureaucracy in the absolutist state was that it was part of the state apparatus for a new kind of feudal domination.

18.   The bureaucracy became the most important part of the state apparatus in the formulation of economic, financial, social and agricultural sectors.

19.   In fact, power in many walks of life was delegated to members of the business elite and business organizations which became part of the state apparatus.

20.   But even without crisis the liberal and interventionist states are different in respect of relations between state apparatuses.