A Formula to Save Us (From Ourselves): Continuity and Change in the Spanish Legal Domination System (1959–2024) Villena Oliver, Andrés Romero Reche, Alejandro This paper analyzes how a structure of Weberian rational domination has been built and consolidated in Spain since 1959, the year when the so‐called Economic Stabilization Plan was approved. This sort of economic constitution represents one of the most important foundations of a technocratic regime that survived the death of a dictator (General Francisco Franco), not only transcending the traditional differentiations between autocratic and democratic regimes but also offering a different perspective to the debate about the degree of continuity and rupture attained by the Spanish political transition in the 1970s. We analyze the institutions, leadership, most influential networks, political discourse, and historical myths through a theory of power and elites to examine the Spanish case. With this remarkable example of structural transformation and institutional resilience over decades, we also propose a more complex and multidimensional approach that could be fruitful to understanding some of the problems of political representation that current democracies are undergoing. 2025-01-08T11:36:28Z 2025-01-08T11:36:28Z 2024-04-24 journal article Villena Oliver, A. & Romero Reche, A. Sociol Lens. 2024;37:240–255. [https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12459] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/98690 10.1111/johs.12459 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional Wiley Online Library