State Capacities
A state must be able to act for it to meet the demands of its condition; if the state cannot provide for basic needs for its population, then its legitimacy will fade out and the state will vanish.
Note the difference between state capacities and polity capabilities. State capacities are what the state can do in its capacity as political form, i.e., as a conglomerate of institutions. For instance, providing drinkable water and removing garbage are basic, but very important state capacities. A political form needs legitimacy to sustain itself and develop its capacities. For at state, legitimizing the means of coercive force is paramount, since without this capacity, polity cannot deter subjects of the state from breaking the law and cannot punish violations. State capacities are developed through institutionalization of the strategic architecture and the public sphere. The ability to run functional markets is an important state capacity in order to generate wealth, that can be taxed, another vital state capacity is taxation, so that the state can redistribute wealth, for instance, to facilitate the creation of more institutions. To be able to distribute force is vital for a state; this distribution of force will transgress the boundaries of the territory of the state and be perceived by others as power projection.