1. It is not one's case that election funding makes no difference to cleaning up public life; it does - but it does not really attack the problem of black money generationthrough corruption. 2. What makes the Indian state more corrupt than most others?(c)This has to do with the state apparatus being"overdeveloped" in relation to the development of classes in society - making the state virtually a "class" by and for itself. 4. When sociologist Hamza Alavi outlined his"overdevelopment" thesis - it was with reference to the state apparatus having developed in response to the needs of the imperial British state - rather than "classes" in Indian society which were underdeveloped atIndependence. 5. The state has since grown into a hormonally imbalanced Leviathan - which dominates almost every aspect of the social and economic life of its citizens - expanding corruption opportunities massively.