1.  Arbiter theorists also recognize that liberal democratic states vary greatly in their internal organization between federal and unitary forms.

2.  Higher administrators are also seen as dominant within the political directorate of the liberal democratic state.

3.  Instrumentalists have never paid great attention to the detailed institutional organization of the liberal democratic state.

4.  The House of Lords Almost all democratic states have a legislature composed of two Houses.

5.  The Parliamentary Council feared a democratic state incapable of functioning as much as a dictatorship too capable of functioning.

6.  These features make elite theory central in arguments about the liberal democratic state.

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

8.  This reluctance to move towards a democratic state is typical of totalitarian regimes.

9.  In a truly democratic state the bureaucracy would be transcended.