A two-state model cannot explain institutions that are both free and constrained.

Evidence

We cannot from such a model predict or comprehend the specific areas of conjuncture and disjuncture which arise between different institutions in civil society. Thus, we would find it impossible to account for the fact that, on a series of specific occasions in recent months, the broadcasters have correctly asserted their editorial independence against clear political pressure (Yesterday’s Men and The Question of Ulster are two instances): and yet at the same time account for the mutual adjustments, the reciprocity of interests and definitions, occurring from day-to-day in all the central domains of broadcasting, between broadcasting and the institutions of power. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 857

Categorization

• DEFINE: Diagnoses the liberal binary (state-controlled vs. free) as a conceptual trap, and gestures toward relative autonomy as the alternative framework.
• XREF: connects to: Fannie and Freddie cannot plausibly explain a multi-state global crisis — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 726