Is Spain really a foreign country?

He joined your husband Charge66 years old, he fulfilled his dream of traveling the American west coast, from California to Canada.

When trying to cross the border, a problem with the cards on the bag forced them to return to European territory: after all, Bill’s visa had expired.

Without another break, neither on this journey nor for the rest of my life, lucky guests are hoping for six weeks of sleep in the basement of the calabashmarried and encadenados.

During that time, according to the report, the guards explained that ICE agents receive substantial economic rewards for each person they detain.

Although ICE officially denies that its officers receive a direct and individual bonus for each arrest, its example seems to indicate that its priorities have little to do with friendliness when dealing with citizens.

The most interesting thing about this story is the incentive mechanism.

In Spain, we know firsthand the harshness of the coercive bureaucracy, which receives rewards for sanctioning defenseless citizens. As regards a more effective and discreet form of power than classic authoritarianism: llamémosle Estado Punitivo Incentivado.

To achieve this change, governments do not need legislative decrees, no constitutional reforms are necessary. They impose themselves by the power of their beings, enriched by a discreet alternation of rewards, punishments and interests.

When a professional career depends on how many funds are received, how many sanctions are imposed or how many are held unwary, the state apparatus is forced to respond to tests created for many purposes. Powered by algorithms and incredible AI vigilance, it happens naturally in the simplest of gripswith predatory logic.

They keep getting more monstrous for these gaters. In the tax agency, there are thus failures in the functioning of complaints related to open procedures and recovered money.

“When a professional career depends on how many measures are taken, sanctions imposed or imprudently held, the equipment of the state is forced to respond to many guesses.”

The result is known to thousands of small, self-employed and generally modest entrepreneurs: preventive deposits, endless, arbitrary, Kafkaesque, impossible processes. We are facing a deeply asymmetrical relationship between the administration and the administration.

While this deterioration occurs, democratic institutions remain seemingly intact: albeit well, courts and administrative bodies continue to perform their functions.

Democracies do not need, at least for the time being, to imprison dissidents and regularly arrest them to enforce discipline with their blood.

But in practice, the relationship between the citizen and the office deteriorates. This phenomenon is recognized by German jurisprudence Ernst Fraenkel This is called a “dual state” whereby a normative state and another discretionary state coexist.

First of all, the regulations remain in force, the institutions function and the law applies.

Second, the government reserves the arbitrary exercise of power without democratic opposition, both through partisan capture of these mechanisms (highly transferable between administrations when there are changes in government) and through the use of perverse incentives.

Spain offers disturbing examples of this dynamic day after day.

One day ago we saw how the Autoridad Independiente de Responsabilidad Fiscal (AIReF) worked in an exemplary manner, He was the latest victim of selfish devastation which started through the CIS, followed through the tax department and continued throughout the administration.

Distinguished President, Cristina HerreroI maintained a strictly technical approach and broadcast inconvenient information for executives. The replacement, as it was called, was a senior Farm Department official who, according to differing accounts, said at internal meetings that “when in doubt, the minister’s position prevails.”

Among its functions, it will of course be necessary to “independently” evaluate its own work regarding the taxation of the Cataluña card.

“When hostile behavior is rewarded by pie citizens, the discretionary state expands according to regulations. Decay of democracy”

The institution remains a Platonic shadow of the original idea. It is also advisable to suppress independent organisms: it is better to transform them into enthusiastic and obedient intermediary agencies.

This derivation is not exclusive to one ideology, but permeates the totality of both liberal and democratic democracies.

There is as much statist and identitarianism in right-wing governments that led to the anti-immigration flag as there is in the pioneers of the world’s progressive principles, among the survivors of the anachronistic Spanish government, supported by all sorts of disintegrating and obscenely similar power identities.

Various governments practice a form of widespread control which depends not so much on laws and concerns as on what they consume through incentives and disincentives. Proceed to Institutional Strategic Summary as soon as possible.

When hostile behavior is rewarded against a country’s citizen, the state’s discretion expands according to regulations. Decade of Democracy. Real power leaves its calling of service to be used only for the same purpose.

This is the logic of the dual state: although the law exists, power learns to exploit or divert it.

The Constitution and justice survive mainly because they are legitimate, but each time they have less power prevent an innocent citizen from being discovered and imprisoned.

*** Carlos Conde Solares is Professor of Spanish History at the University of Northumbria, United Kingdom.