Crisis Of Capitalism and State Theory: An Assessment of Bob Jessop’s State Theory Attila Güney The aim of this study is to make an assessment of Jessop’s contribution to Marxist state theory. To achieve that objective, the study focuses on the form of the formulation of the relationship between the economic and the political sphere in Jessop’s theory. It suggests that what is crucial in Jessop’s study is that the structuralist problematics can not be overcome and, they remain, as a central obstacle, at the centre of his theory. For this reason, this relationship between the economic and the political sphere, in Jessop’s state theory, increasingly reproduces itsef and, the political sphere is evaluated as having privacy in front of the economic sphere in analysing the capitalist state