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The Moral Basis of a Backward Society
book by Banfield
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- In political science: Political culture
…political culture study, Edward Banfield’s The Moral Basis of a Backward Society (1958), argued that poverty in southern Italy grew out of a psychological inability to trust or to form associations beyond the immediate family, a finding that was long controversial but is now accepted by many.
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