{"id":34775,"date":"2016-05-12T02:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34775"},"modified":"2024-02-13T22:37:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T03:37:49","slug":"the-state-is-not-actually-monolithic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/05\/12\/the-state-is-not-actually-monolithic\/","title":{"rendered":"The State is not actually monolithic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a comment on <em>Facebook<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sean.gabb\/posts\/1186461334721438?comment_id=1186464384721133&#038;reply_comment_id=1186465521387686&#038;comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R1%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sean Gabb<\/a> explains why even a government in a non-federal system sometimes seems to act inconsistently from moment to moment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Sean Gabb<\/strong> In a country as large and rich as ours, The State is best regarded not as an entity with a single will, but as a collection of interest groups with agendas that sometimes overlap and sometimes conflict. The job of the people at the top is largely to try balancing these interests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a comment on Facebook, Sean Gabb explains why even a government in a non-federal system sometimes seems to act inconsistently from moment to moment: Sean Gabb In a country as large and rich as ours, The State is best regarded not as an entity with a single will, but as a collection of interest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,84],"tags":[322,1468],"class_list":["post-34775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-bureaucracy","category-government","tag-nannystate","tag-seangabb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-92T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87363,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34775\/revisions\/87363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}