State organization as a political indicator

Paul G. Buchanan

Report offers a theoretical and methodological framework with which to relate regime type to the specific structure and function of the national state apparatus, thereby providing an analytic tool for early prognostication of regime type and objectives. Much attention has been recently devoted to the concepts of regime and state as integral elements of modern political systems. Even so, little attention has been given to the relationship between these two elements, particularly the influence regime type has on the concrete organization of the national state apparatus. This note offers a theoretical and methodological framework with which to relate regime type to the specific structure and function of the state apparatus, in order to provide an analytic tool that will be of value to students of regime-state relations in both the academic and policy-making communities. (fr).