I think this may be a bit backwards. Government structures naturally flow from and reflect the cultures and societies they spring from. If Afghans design a government it will very naturally reflect Afghan political culture... unless you're proposing that somebody else should do the designing.
Of course political cultures can and do evolve, and the systems they produce evolve with them. Whether a political culture can be "evolved" by imposition of structures not deriving from that culture is another question. Seems an unlikely prospect to me.
One of the odder illusions embraced in our Afghan enterprise is the notion that Afghans were going to stop governing like Afghans simply because we put them in power. Of course Afghans will govern like Afghans. They will do so no matter what we say or do.
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