Political Cultures Of Great Britain And Italy

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Compares the two countries, differences & things held in common. Defines meaning of a political culture & its value in helping to determine the rules of the political system. Three main traditional characteristics of British political culture (Homegeneity, Consensus, Deference). Britain's change to a more multinational country. The politics of regionalism in Italy; diversity of the country's regions.

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"Upon first examination, one would think there no two political cultures in the world more unalike than those of Great Britain -- the United Kingdom -- and Italy, that comparing the two is like comparing a Yorkshire Pudding with a Calabrian Pasta. It is true that Great Britain is the first modern nation-state, and was such when the King of France ruled little more than the Ile de France and was not as great as his nobles, when Italians were busy killing each other off in the internecine wars of small city-states, that Britain founded the first great western empire since that founded by the Romans and the Italians have only a bit more than 150 years as a unified state, and one that has never settled into unification easily. Yet there are more things in..."

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