Malaquais believed that there was little to choose between the United States and the Soviet Union — that both were systems of state capitalism, dehumanizing bureaucracies, totalitarianisms of the spirit.
Unification of Brazil's 27 separate systems of state sales taxes, a necessity, "is a dream," says José Carlos Aleluia, opposition leader in the lower house.
Xu and Mizukami (1994) have studied systems of state space.
One of these alone--the standardization of pension systems of state employees -- could save up to 500 million Euros through 2050.
Citizens of the Soviet Union could file complaints and receive redress through the Communist Party, but the post-Soviet government had not developed systems of state recourse.
Its origins lie instead in the Westphalian system of states and the modern scientific revolution.
They operate within a context of world industrialization, in a world system of states of decidedly unequal wealth and power.
Matters changed when communism turned into a system of states as well as parties, for states have different constraints, a different constituency and different tasks.
But its advantages -- as a device for keeping a working federal system of states in place -- require a constitutional scholar to explain.
The new system of states under the leadership of an overlord developed not only in northern China under Jin but also in the south under Chu.
It will be a feature even of the rational system of states that marks the end of historical development.
