Political culture can render some regimes unworkable.

Evidence

Doria, on the other hand, shared the view of the Milanese merchant who, offering sage northern advice to disordered southerners, wrote to a Neapolitan friend in November 1647 that Naples had been too long used to monarchical rule to be able to make a republican government work. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1751

Categorization

• XREF: The Milanese-superiority-to-Naples framing echoes the reader’s knowledge of north-south Italian economic divergence and its trust explanations (Putnam and Banfield). — connects to: New regimes impose new calendars to cement power, but such reforms usually fail. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 102
• SHARE: The specific anecdote — a 1647 letter warning Naples against republicanism on cultural grounds — is narrow and historical enough to share with a scholar of Italian political thought.