Identify five differences between the state as an entity and government as an institution.
Identify five differences between the state as an entity and government as an institution.
Explanation
| State | Government |
1. A state has a permanent status | - Government on the other hand is transient. It comes and goes |
2. It is a territorial association of people with defined boundaries | - lt is an administrative institution of the state |
| 3. Membership of a state is compulsory | - Membership of a government is optional |
| 4. A state is an abstract concept | - Government and its officials are tangible |
| 5. A state is a larger entity | - Government is relatively a smaller institution within the state |
| 6. A state depends on the government to carry out its activities | - Government is the machinery through which the functions of the state are performed |
| 7. The state is sovereign | - Government is not sovereign |
| 8. Every state possesses a legal status/constitution | - Whereas government in power enforces the constitution |
| 9. States are identical in their features from state | - Governments differ to state |
| 10. A state is a fixed entity | - Whereas government and its officials are not fixed |
| 11. The emergence of the state has different theories | - While emergence of government has one central justification |