The constitution provides power to the indigenous population (which constitute about 55% of the population) and to the Bolivian state apparatus.
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.
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.
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 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.
Chief among these was a state planning apparatus that attempted to manage, by fiat, virtually every facet of economic life.
Yet the EU is not yet an over-arching governmental super-state ruling apparatus.
State authorities surrendered to the federal apparatus only a few precisely enumerated responsibilities.
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But it also exposed fissures in the state's once formidable Democratic apparatus.
Those groups would be widely credited with a Kerry win in Ohio, a GOP-dominated state where Democrats have a particularly weak party apparatus.
Dr Cirac and Dr Romero-Isart therefore propose putting the virus inside a microscopic cavity and cooling it down to its state of lowest energy (ground state, in physics parlance) using a piece of apparatus known as a laser trap.
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