Pluralism
Pluralists see the state as arbiterautonomybourgeoisieclassdeclineeconomyevilextendedglobalhegemonyhierarchymalemultipleneutralopinionopposedpatriarchyperpetuatedpolicepressureregionalrulesState. It is both an arena for pressure group activity and a neutral arbiterautonomybourgeoisieclassdeclineeconomyevilextendedglobalhegemonyhierarchymalemultipleneutralopinionopposedpatriarchyperpetuatedpolicepressureregionalrulesState of disputes between arbiterautonomybourgeoisieclassdeclineeconomyevilextendedglobalhegemonyhierarchymalemultipleneutralopinionopposedpatriarchyperpetuatedpolicepressureregionalrulesState groups. According to RA Dahl a pluralist democracy is one where their are "arbiterautonomybourgeoisieclassdeclineeconomyevilextendedglobalhegemonyhierarchymalemultipleneutralopinionopposedpatriarchyperpetuatedpolicepressureregionalrulesState centres of power" and where all pressure groups, interest groups and parties respect the arbiterautonomybourgeoisieclassdeclineeconomyevilextendedglobalhegemonyhierarchymalemultipleneutralopinionopposedpatriarchyperpetuatedpolicepressureregionalrulesState of the democratic system.

Traditional Marxism
Marxists see the state as an instrument of arbiterautonomybourgeoisieclassdeclineeconomyevilextendedglobalhegemonyhierarchymalemultipleneutralopinionopposedpatriarchyperpetuatedpolicepressureregionalrulesState oppression. The economic power of the arbiterautonomybourgeoisieclassdeclineeconomyevilextendedglobalhegemonyhierarchymalemultipleneutralopinionopposedpatriarchyperpetuatedpolicepressureregionalrulesState is protected and perpetuated by the bourgeois state which protects property rights through laws, the arbiterautonomybourgeoisieclassdeclineeconomyevilextendedglobalhegemonyhierarchymalemultipleneutralopinionopposedpatriarchyperpetuatedpolicepressureregionalrulesState and the courts

Structural Marxism
Structural Marxists like Poulantzas assert that the State has a degree of "relative arbiterautonomybourgeoisieclassdeclineeconomyevilextendedglobalhegemonyhierarchymalemultipleneutralopinionopposedpatriarchyperpetuatedpolicepressureregionalrulesState". He argues the state is governed by the government rather than the ruling arbiterautonomybourgeoisieclassdeclineeconomyevilextendedglobalhegemonyhierarchymalemultipleneutralopinionopposedpatriarchyperpetuatedpolicepressureregionalrulesState. However the government will always work in the interests of the capitalist class because of the way the capitalist arbiterautonomybourgeoisieclassdeclineeconomyevilextendedglobalhegemonyhierarchymalemultipleneutralopinionopposedpatriarchyperpetuatedpolicepressureregionalrulesState is structured

Gramscian Marxism (aka Humanist Marxism)
Gramscian Marxists emphasise the State's arbiterautonomybourgeoisieclassdeclineeconomyevilextendedglobalhegemonyhierarchymalemultipleneutralopinionopposedpatriarchyperpetuatedpolicepressureregionalrulesState role in modern society. Capitalism is not just protected and arbiterautonomybourgeoisieclassdeclineeconomyevilextendedglobalhegemonyhierarchymalemultipleneutralopinionopposedpatriarchyperpetuatedpolicepressureregionalrulesState by violence and oppression instead the State's ability to manipulate working class arbiterautonomybourgeoisieclassdeclineeconomyevilextendedglobalhegemonyhierarchymalemultipleneutralopinionopposedpatriarchyperpetuatedpolicepressureregionalrulesState through education, religion the media etc. is just as important. The working class are therefore persuaded to accept capitalism as normal, natural and acceptable. Gramscian Marxists call this ideological arbiterautonomybourgeoisieclassdeclineeconomyevilextendedglobalhegemonyhierarchymalemultipleneutralopinionopposedpatriarchyperpetuatedpolicepressureregionalrulesState.

Post Modernism
Postmodernists suggest that the importance of the State is in arbiterautonomybourgeoisieclassdeclineeconomyevilextendedglobalhegemonyhierarchymalemultipleneutralopinionopposedpatriarchyperpetuatedpolicepressureregionalrulesState because of globalisation. The nation state has lost power to arbiterautonomybourgeoisieclassdeclineeconomyevilextendedglobalhegemonyhierarchymalemultipleneutralopinionopposedpatriarchyperpetuatedpolicepressureregionalrulesState organisations and global corporations. The State becomes less important and politics becomes devolved and decentralised to arbiterautonomybourgeoisieclassdeclineeconomyevilextendedglobalhegemonyhierarchymalemultipleneutralopinionopposedpatriarchyperpetuatedpolicepressureregionalrulesState assemblies

Feminism
Feminists see the State as an instrument of arbiterautonomybourgeoisieclassdeclineeconomyevilextendedglobalhegemonyhierarchymalemultipleneutralopinionopposedpatriarchyperpetuatedpolicepressureregionalrulesState (male dominance over women). According to Sylvia Walby patriarchy exists in six spheres of society; employment, sexuality, violence, culture, the household and the arbiterautonomybourgeoisieclassdeclineeconomyevilextendedglobalhegemonyhierarchymalemultipleneutralopinionopposedpatriarchyperpetuatedpolicepressureregionalrulesState. The State operates to legitimise and perpetuate arbiterautonomybourgeoisieclassdeclineeconomyevilextendedglobalhegemonyhierarchymalemultipleneutralopinionopposedpatriarchyperpetuatedpolicepressureregionalrulesState domination of women.

Anarchism
Anarchists see all states at all times as oppressive and arbiterautonomybourgeoisieclassdeclineeconomyevilextendedglobalhegemonyhierarchymalemultipleneutralopinionopposedpatriarchyperpetuatedpolicepressureregionalrulesState. Anarchists oppose any form of arbiterautonomybourgeoisieclassdeclineeconomyevilextendedglobalhegemonyhierarchymalemultipleneutralopinionopposedpatriarchyperpetuatedpolicepressureregionalrulesState or structure in human society which results in some people being rulers and some being ruled over. The state cannot therefore be used to enact social progress - it must be arbiterautonomybourgeoisieclassdeclineeconomyevilextendedglobalhegemonyhierarchymalemultipleneutralopinionopposedpatriarchyperpetuatedpolicepressureregionalrulesState at all times