In addition, actors in the state’s environment are said to be increasingly reluctant to conform to the state’s interests and objectives. Previously, the state was an attractive target for organized interests not least because they controlled vast economic resources. Current nation states face considerable economic and fiscal problems and hence are less interesting in the eyes of most societal actors. Societal actors may indeed now invest more effort in avoiding involvement with the state than in pursuing such involvements as they may have at one time. That having been said, however, there are still areas of economic and social action in which government remains a crucial actor.