1.  A modern capitalist state can not openly use coercive powers to help one class accumulate capital at the expense of others.

2.  But it would be highly destabilising for any modern state.

3.  Ever since the emergence of the modern state Tilly et al.

4.  It is the provision of welfare, however, which distinguishes the modern state from previous states.

5.  They wanted to transform the country into a modern democratic state.

6.  A modern industrial state cannot function with an idle, ignorant labor force.

7.  The range of professions utilized by the administrative agencies of the modern state not only encompasses all the traditional professional and scientific disciplines.

8.  The analytical techniques available to the bureaucracies of modern states are increasingly sophisticated.

9.  A modern capitalist state cannot openly use coercive powers to help one class accumulate capital at the expense of others.