Rule by decree efficiently dominates heterogeneous territories by withholding information.

Evidence

Throughout the penal procedure and the implementation of the sentence there swarms a whole series of subsidiary authorities. Small-scale legal systems and parallel judges have multiplied around the principal judgement: psychiatric or psychological experts, magistrates concerned with the implementation of sentences, educationalists, members of the prison service, all fragment the legal power to punish — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 60 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Totalitarian rule deliberately multiplies offices and conceals the true seat of power; A swarm of subsidiary authorities fragments judicial power to punish — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 60; Withholding cooperation becomes power under high interdependence (+1 more)

Related

• A swarm of subsidiary authorities fragments judicial power to punish (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Totalitarian rule deliberately multiplies offices and conceals the true seat of power #expands (0.82)
• Withholding cooperation becomes power under high interdependence #corroborates (0.78)
• A swarm of subsidiary authorities fragments judicial power to punish #complicates (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 60