"Some of this institutional weakness comes from the post-PRI fragmentation of power," Jablonska said.
Now, however, the fragmentation of power between different centres and personalities is no longer tolerated.
America may often seem on the brink of implosion, yet it draws strength from its fragmentation of power, the same fragmentation as was advocated for Norway.
First, the fragmentation of power, especially within the military, was such that no one faction thought it could prevail.
Seen from the perspective of the world, the fragmentation of power after the cold war creates new dangers of disorder that need to be mitigated by the sense of regularity and predictability that only the rule of law can provide.
The result, in Indonesia and Russia, is rampant corruption and a fragmentation of power in which neither the army, the Parliament, the executive nor the remnants of the old order have the strength to assert their will.
The electricity blackouts in July were caused by states ignoring national limits on power use.For big businessmen this fragmentation of power is profoundly confusing, which is one reason why so many prefer to invest abroad.
As in the United States, whose last election produced a president who did not win the popular vote and a Congress that is controlled by razor-thin margins, Mexico's electorate has created "the absence of absolute majorities, the fragmentation of power and the necessity of negotiation," Mr. Rubio said.
Indeed, libertarians often claim that the greater freedom and prosperity of European society (in comparison with other parts of the world) in the early modern era was the result of the fragmentation of power, both between church and state and among the continent's many different kingdoms, principalities, and city-states.
They saw feudalism as encompassing many if not most aspects of medieval society: peasants, whether free, unfree, or semi-free; a ruling warrior class with subordinates compensated for military service by grants of land rather than money; fragmentation of power; and disorder yet with the family and the state retaining their importance.
