That underlies my view that absolute rule is more achievable than
Urielo thinks, and that making divided rule stable is more difficult than he thinks. As he says, "we agree on the fundamentals, and disagree on the specifics".
Update: just come across
this 2004 piece from Nick Szabo, where he talks about dividing power to produce "the strategy of
required conspiracy, since abusing the power requires two or more of the separated entities to collude". However, as I see it doing that is only half the job: the other half is actually preventing the separated entities from colluding.