Samuel Huntington opened his influential book, Political Order in Changing Societies, with the bold claim, "The most important political distinction among countries concerns not their form of government but their degree of government.' Stable political systems are those, he says, where there is a political community with an overwhelming consensus among the people on the legitimacy of the political system" and where leaders share a vision of the public interest of the society and the traditions and principles upon which the political community is based." Assess this claim.
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