The Crackling Idea of a Universal Model of State
There is no one-size-fits-all-bureaucracy.
6 min readDec 12, 2020
What is the modern state? One idea is that the modern state is characterised by an impersonal bureaucracy. In short, we before had patrimonial states, where a nation was led by a king or an emperor, where the king stood above the rest of the populace. This was aptly summarised by a quote apocryphally…
