re organized and economically powerful protect their interests at the expense of the weaker groups, all groups in society compete for more state services. However, since the state is not able to control the level of citizens' demands, it loses its legitimacy, especially as seen by society's most disadvantaged groups.
Theorists on the right tend to agree with this idea, but they do not blame the capitalist economy for generating too many demands which the state has to meet. Instead, they believe that the left has generated demands on the state which should be handled by traditional institutions, such as the family and the church. These demands, by their very nature, cannot be managed by the state, and historically they have been managed by the traditional sector or institutions. Therefore, when the state starts to regulate demands that are usually handled by traditional institutions, the result is a demand overload, which could result in crises of political support (Huntington, 1981, pp. 232-33; Crozier, Huntington, & Wat
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