User:Antidiskriminator/Drafts of articles/Puppet regime vs. puppet state?

When it was created in 2002, a topic of the Puppet state article was in fact the Puppet government. During first five years it remained unchallenged until User:Zchenyu changed it to puppet state. This article now has state for topic but template which refers to different forms of governments.Template:Forms of government

Puppet state vs. its government

 * "distinction between state and government" - 13,100 GoogleBooks hits
 * Krystyna Marek: Puppet states are to be distinguished from puppet governments. A puppet State is an entirely new organism created by the occupant, whereas in a puppet government only the governmental functions are a creation of the occupant, the original State having been in existence before the occupation. - "Identity and Continuity of States in Public International Law", 1968
 * Raphael Lemkin: Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, "Puppet states are to be distinguished from puppet governments.", ... "In Yugoslavia Germany established the pupet state of Serbia.", 2008, page 8
 * Amerasia; a review of America and the Far East, Том 4 "From the structural point of view the puppet government, like the puppet state, theoretically enjoys complete independence, but for all practical purposes is dominated by the controlling power." p.574 - 1940

Serbia

 * Raphael Lemkin: Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, ... "In Yugoslavia Germany established the pupet state of Serbia.", 2008, page 8
 * Wayne S. Vucinich, Jozo Tomasevitch - Contemporary Yugoslavia: twenty years of Socialist experiment, "There is no satisfactory study on the puppet state of Serbia during World War II." p. 368
 * John R. Morris, Yugoslavia, "puppet state of Serbia", 1948, p. 43
 * Bernd Jürgen Fischer, Balkan Strongmen: Dictators and Authoritarian Rulers of South Eastern Europe, "A puppet state of Serbia was created, ...", p. 221

Government
Government (which can sometimes be puppet government) is the particular group of people, the administrative bureaucracy, that controls the state apparatus at a given time. That is, governments are the means through which state power is employed. States are served by a continuous succession of different governments.