The Dual State and the Area without Law

Vértigo Político

Factuality

Ownership

In one of my recent columns (The Surreptite dictatorship, Vertigo 1281) I argued that the best strategy to consolidate a dictatorship is simply not to look like a dictatorship. The most effective tactic to achieve this is graduality: to avoid brutal acts that reveal an authoritarian tendency and, instead, gradually modify the legal framework to corner citizens' freedoms in an imperceptible autocratic web. In recent years this is precisely what h…