Question

Difference between state and government

Answer 1

State--A state, according to the Oxford English dictionary, is ‘a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government.’ There are different types of states such as Sovereign state, Member state, Federated state, and Nation state. For example, United States and China are sovereign states. Moreover, a state is an organized political community occupying a part of a territory under one government. Florida is a state of United States. Here you get to see that sometimes a state exists within a state as Florida and Unites States. Government--The term government, on the contrary, refers to the civil government of a sovereign state. There are different types of government such as Anarchism, Authoritarian, Communism, Constitutional monarchy, and Constitutional republic, Democracy, Dictatorship, Monarchy, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Theocracy and Legalism. A government is an organization that has the power to make and enforce laws for a definite territory. The word ‘govern’ has the meaning of ‘power to administrate’. OR In the field of politics, the difference between state and government can be a little confusing. In a very general sense, the word state refers to the present state of someone or something in a given time. It also refers to a governed entity such as a province and even a country as a whole. A government, on the other hand, is a kind of agency through which authority is exercised by political units.