Este es un blog sobre historia, más concretamente, del período clásico. No es un blog de política. Sabeis que no acostumbro a mezclar temas, pero no me puedo resistir a comnpartir con vosotros este artículo del Wall Street Journal sobre la política española, que explica las cosas muy claritas... disculpad que no os lo traduzca del inglés... os extraigo el fragmento que más me ha gustado y al final os pongo el link por si quereis leer el texto completo...
But the dysfunction has a simpler explanation, too: the importance in Spain of enchufismo, of being plugged in. No job—not at the central bank, the constitutional court or the diplomatic corps—is above handing out by the party chiefs. Spain's real-estate bubble started when regional savings banks became vehicles for politically directed lending.
Hence the parties are peopled at all levels by mediocrities: from José Bono, the Socialists' erstwhile defense minister and a folksy populist in the Central American fashion; to Education Minister José Ignacio Wert, who vowed to "Hispanicize" Catalan children to resolve the secession crisis; to the Socialist Party's former deputy general José Blanco, who received the Grand Cross of the Order of Carlos III last December just two days after the Supreme Court opened a probe into bribery allegations.
And in Spain as elsewhere, clientelistic privilege is its own best PR. A 2010 survey by Monster found that 72% of Spaniards wanted to work in the civil service. "There are no entrepreneurs in Spain," one investment manager tells me gloomily.
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