We have therefore through Nettl’s Historical, Cultural and intellectual perspectives on state shown some of the very fundamental problems connected to the Nigerian Federation.
Lastly, in his focus on third world states, we come close to the thesis problem. The state is even less a meaningful concept in this region than it is in the rest of the world. What implications will the multi-ethnic “explosions” that was fuelled by the colonial legacy have on the Nigerian form of Organized Criminal Networks?
2.3.
The Italian divide
2.3.1.
Introduction Putnam
The significance of this text is twofold. First of all it gives us a basic insight in the comparative analysis of two institutional divided geographic areas on a state level. The thesis is meant to use the same statement of problem when it comes to explaining potential differences between Nigerian context and other cases. This potential divide exists on an international scale rather than Putnam’s national one, but the basics of comparison and explanation is the same. Secondly, the fact that the divide between southern and northern Italy is so large, may give us a connection to the Economy of Affection and the means to analyse this concept in a broader sense.
2.3.2.
Civic Traditions
In Robert D. Putnams Making democracy work: Civic traditions in modern Italy, Putnam describes a divide between democratic institutional capacity between northern Italy and south (Putman1994:5). By asking the question of how social, economic and culture influence democratic performance, he sketches an image of a divide, ruled by an historical context and socio-economic contemporary factors.
In the early 1970s Italy started a process of sudden transference of administrative power from centralized Rome, to the Italian regions (Putnam1994:4). The transfer included civic problems like health, safety among others (Ibid.). Since the unification of Italy in 1870 no attempts before the 1970 on decentralization to the regions was ever made (Putnam1994:5). Italy was a
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