The Bolivarian Para- military will be quickly mobilized and the whole state apparatus will increase its repression.
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But Clean Edgar, working with an efficient state apparatus behind him, is a lot more dangerous than Dirty Harry.
After 24 unchallenged years in power, and control of a vast state apparatus, Mr Mubarak had a huge advantage.
The constitution provides power to the indigenous population (which constitute about 55% of the population) and to the Bolivian state apparatus.
Nor should we restrict ourselves to studying the state apparatus needed to sustain acts of mass murder, such as the Holocaust.
Smaller parts of the state apparatus find it hard to assert themselves against some of the big and powerful ones, such as the customs service.
Thoughtless (or cynical) officials are saying they will cut development spending to pay for reconstruction, though other bits of the bloated state apparatus should be chopped first.
However, I would argue that this has very little do with the unique travails of Putinism and far more to do with the inherent difficulty of coordinating the activities of a massive state apparatus.
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That assumption may be worth re-examining, not only because China's vast state apparatus shows little interest in shedding control but also because some Western markets are starting to look a bit more like China's.
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Maduro, the 50-year-old longtime foreign minister to Chavez, pinned his hopes on the immense loyalty for his boss among millions of poor beneficiaries of government largesse and the powerful state apparatus that Chavez skillfully consolidated.
The world looks to a day when the vast police-state apparatus in China, like the civil service bureaucracy in India, is but a huge and largely inert jobs program kept for the sake of constituency politics.
The 50-year-old longtime Chavez foreign minister pinned his hopes on the immense loyalty for his boss among millions of poor beneficiaries of a socialist government's largesse and the heft of a state apparatus that Chavez skillfully consolidated.
This contrasts with the aftermath of the 1989 earthquake just west of Algiers in which Islamist volunteers and charities upstaged the slow moving state apparatus to take over the rescue and rehabilitation process, earning the Salvation Front much political support.
The Center believes that -- as positive as the wholesale destruction of Iraq's offensive military potential is -- if Saddam's police state apparatus is not similarly destroyed, the Iraqi people will be denied an opportunity for self-governance too long denied them.
Meanwhile, there are many things that should receive more public attention because of the precedents they set, such as the continuation and expansion of Bush-era policies on surveillance, targeted done assassinations, and in general the unchecked, mostly-secret growth of a shadowy security state apparatus.
Maduro, a longtime foreign minister to Chavez, rode a wave of sympathy for the charismatic leader to victory, pinning his hopes on the immense loyalty for his boss among millions of poor beneficiaries of government largesse and the powerful state apparatus that Chavez skillfully consolidated.
The staff at the summit of the state apparatus are focused on personal enrichment, at state monopolies with the handing over of the rest of the economy to the less privileged parts of the state apparatus developing into a spontaneous return to the Soviet past.
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The timely formation of the government will make it possible to avoid uncertainty in the structures of federal executive authority and consequently to support the state apparatus's ability to work and preserve the speed set for reforms, including within the framework of administrative reform that has begun.
But here is the thing: The size of the takeover may well be its attraction, in respect of one aspect of public policy, but it looks likely to be its undoing, at the hands of another part of the state apparatus, the City regulator, the Financial Services Authority.
The 30-year experience of the Islamic Republic shows fundamental flaws in defining a state apparatus in the exclusive terms of a militantly legalistic Islam, while at the same time Iranians, the overwhelming majority of them Shiite Muslims, have repeatedly demonstrated, under this regime, they are perfectly capable of democratic behavior.
In the longer term, however, Mr Cardoso reckons his biggest achievement will lie in his reform of the state: not just in privatisation, but in a wholesale decentralisation of the state apparatus, particularly in education and health, and in replacing ministries with regulatory agencies, harder for political parties to control.
It also enjoyed a pervasive state media apparatus as part of a near monopoly on institutional power.
Chief among these was a state planning apparatus that attempted to manage, by fiat, virtually every facet of economic life.
The dreaded state security apparatus, known as the Stasi, was substantially weakened.
The powerful state political apparatus built by Chavez is standing with Maduro.
Yet the EU is not yet an over-arching governmental super-state ruling apparatus.
One key reform enacted even before the election was the dissolution of the notorious political police and state security apparatus, which were blamed for many human rights abuses.
This leaves the government little room for manoeuvre, especially when no genuine effort is made to slim down the overweight apparatus of state.
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