Official state

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The term official state is a polemical term for a state in which the political and social influence of public officials is actually or apparently much greater than that which the population share and the responsibility for sovereign tasks alone would result or legitimize. A real civil service state is characterized by a high degree of bureaucracy and, in particular, the arbitrariness of the authorities. Not necessarily, but very typical for a civil service state, there is also a proportion of civil servants among the political representatives that far exceeds the actual proportion of the population.

Well-known special forms of the civil servant state are the police state and the military state , which in the extreme become dictatorship or military dictatorship .

In the civil service state, democratic structures are undermined by the fact that the tripartite system of state separation of powers , i.e. the legislative , executive and judicial branches , is subordinate to or at least influenced by the minority of the civil servants . This influence particularly serves the lobby of one's own profession.

The political landscape in Germany is criticized in this context, since it is estimated that every third politician is or was a civil servant himself. Around 40 percent of members of the Bundestag, for example, come from the public sector .

See also

• Banana republic

Web links

• Analysis of a civil servant state using the example of Japan
• Vice President of the EU Commission, Günter Verheugen on the power struggle between commissioners and senior EU officials (10.2006)
• Der Spiegel 51/1974: On the way to the official republic. - The federal, state and local governments have to cancel investment projects because personnel expenditure is rising faster than income. Pay increases brought the civil servants to the top of the salary earners. The civil service law stands in the way of the modern service state - civil servants block all reform attempts. (after the kluncker round )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Social Plastic - Germany as an Authoritative State ( Memento from May 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )