“I think culture explains how major beliefs of people can surpass ideological definitions in terms of cultural and social expectations of both Liberty and government authority, in democracies and in non-democratic states as well”
- A very good analysis.
But, how should countries like Germany, America and Japan, formerly world-leading industrial powers of this world today ACT?
That's a MUCH bigger topic (book lenght???). My only point was to ask/think-about what mechanism is it within some very ideologically close nations who are also governed extremely similarly that leads public consensus in those nations to adopt very different policy solutions to identical or very similar issues.
It is clear that when comparing Germany, the U.K. and France on the one hand with "Scandinavia" on the other; that extreme differences in ideology or governance structures cannot explain the policy differences, because from the first case to the second there is not such extreme differences.
Yet, obviously in spite of extreme similarities of ideology and governance, public consensus has produced very different policies.
And the biggest real difference between the first case and the second, the difference from which very like-minded people ideologically make very different public policy choices - national culture.