Our cycles are different because our societies are different. Forget island nations and proud heritages and all that stuff. The facts tell a different tale. Now, as Lipset and Marks say, there's constant flux. European governments are having to squeeze familiar traces of social democracy out of their systems.
Market economies operate to perceived global rules.
Everything is getting closer together. But the assumptions in those changing societies don't move nearly as fast. Uncertainly betwixt and between. We are America's best chum on earth, the first country to take any president's side in a jam. We service Washington's intelligence gatherers.