Indeed what a modern state actually is, in large measure is a strongly institutionalized division of political labour, though not one which in any sense occludes the exercise of coercive force. The interesting question in modern political theory is not whether there is going to be a political division of labour (there is). It is the question of what forms that division is going to take and what are going to be the consequences of its taking those and not other forms.

Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking…, loc. 1244