Here, guest, was the very nerve center of the fundamental coercive apparatus of the state!"

They also launched attacks against pro-Bourbon presses, and paralyzed the coercive apparatus of the monarchy.

The coercive apparatus of the dictatorship-secret police, Republican Guard, official party, censorship-was overwhelmed and abolished.

In short, the strength, coherence, and effectiveness of the state's coercive apparatus discriminate between cases of successful and failed democratization.

Export slaving entailed the construction of a coercive apparatus which could have been subsequently turned to other ends, such as policing a captive labour force.

At least, Mr. Ahmad argued, India has managed to address Muslim concerns without what he called the "coercive apparatus" that some European countries have adopted.

In France a more elaborate and complex coercive apparatus existed than anywhere else in Western Europe - the system of classement set up by Colbert in 1668-73.

The character of the state had changed decisively from the coercive apparatus of monarchical power to the increasingly bureaucratic (but determinedly laissez-faire) administration of the first capitalist nation.

Inspired by Skopcol's work on revolution, Belin argues that democratic transition can only be carried out when the state's coercive apparatus lacks the will or capacity to crush it.

In most capitalist countries, this coercive apparatus constitutes a vast, sprawling and resourceful establishment, whose professional leaders are men of high status and great influence, inside the state system and in society.

Libertarians who argue for self-determination distinguish between the voluntary nation (the land, the culture, the terrain, the people) and the state, the coercive apparatus, which they have a right to choose or self-determine.

He compared the government to a police state as far back as 1989, when he wrote, "The Thatcher Government has brought into being the full coercive apparatus of a police state."

Although he viewed every state as a coercive apparatus designed to secure the economic exploitation of the masses, he defended democratic freedoms, which he considered a result of a desire for freedom of the enlightened public.

And, as history reveals, authoritarianism has been exceptionally robust in the MENA because the coercive apparatus in many of the states has proven exceptionally able and willing to crush reform initiatives.

They opposed the alliance between the state and the Church as the enemy of human progress and well-being because the coercive apparatus of the state curbed individual liberty and the Church legitimated monarchs by positing the theory of divine origin.

In the meantime a 'John Lewis economy' would be preferable to the hyper capitalism we have at the moment where the state sheds its benign welfare functions and strengthens its coercive apparatus and every decision is tested against whether business likes it or not and capitalism gets even crueller.