Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

A French official once told me that America lacks a *concept* of the state, and then I read that again recently in an academic comparative government book so I think it might be true. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 4, 2021 Hibernated

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The best thing about the "state capacity" discourse is that nobody has a measurement of it, so anyone can say whatever they want about it. — PolitiTweet.org

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He said (which might be total BS ... france twitter lmk) that there is a "French State" that persists not just across elected governments but across the Second Empire, Third Republic, Vichy, Fourth Republic, Fifth Republic regimes. — PolitiTweet.org

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