The state institutionally elevates some interests by excluding and devaluing others.

Evidence

It follows that the state is (an institutionalization of) the exercise of power. It is, by both design and effect, the institutionalized elevation of the interests - political, economic, legal, social, cultural - of some to the exclusion or devaluation of others. State power thus is exercised and embodied in the name of, and through the institutionalized apparatuses of, the state on behalf of some (always more or less contested) interests to the exclusion of others. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1736

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The state now sorts citizens into lauded risk-takers and abject at-risk populations — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 266; States build durable categories that tie unequal rights to separated groups. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 553; State admission policy can entrench policy by selectively admitting states.