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.
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.
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.
The Bolivarian Para- military will be quickly mobilized and the whole state apparatus will increase its repression.
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The constitution provides power to the indigenous population (which constitute about 55% of the population) and to the Bolivian state apparatus.
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.
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.
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.
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 dreaded state security apparatus, known as the Stasi, was substantially weakened.
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.
Rather than use privatisation to break with the companies' over-regulated past, the government is leaving much of the apparatus of state control intact.
The security at the event was astonishingly tight - the full apparatus of the Zimbabwean state employed for a party political event.
The powerful state political apparatus built by Chavez is standing with Maduro.
On the State Department and the national security apparatus and what they were doing or not doing concerning the safety and security of the special mission consulate at Benghazi and the safety, of course, of Ambassador Stevens and his crew, the three other folks who died with him at the embassy.
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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.
This leaves the government little room for manoeuvre, especially when no genuine effort is made to slim down the overweight apparatus of state.
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.
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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But it also exposed fissures in the state's once formidable Democratic apparatus.
He had meant what he said on that awful day in 1980: it was atheism he hated, not the apparatus of the communist state.
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.
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.
He was the Brotherhood's primary point man for state security -- "the repressive domestic security apparatus through which the Mubarak regime monitored and infiltrated opposition groups, " Trager writes.
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