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The dual state is a model in which the functioning of a state is divided into a normative state, which operates according to set rules and regulations, and a prerogative state, "which exercises unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees".[1] It was invented by Ernst Fraenkel to describe the functioning of the Nazi state especially law in Nazi Germany, and described in his book The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship [de].

Although it was originally intended as an analysis of authoritarian states, some elements of the prerogative state are present in democracies.[2][3][4] The model has also been applied to other states such as Israel,[5][6][7][8] the United States,[9][10] South Africa,[11] Fascist Italy,[12] twenty-first century China[13][14] and Russia[15][16][17] as well as Lebanon.[18]

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