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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778269603321

Titolo

Growing apart? : America and Europe in the twenty-first century / / edited by Jeffrey Kopstein, Sven Steinmo [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008

ISBN

1-107-18380-4

0-511-36712-0

1-281-14635-8

9786611146351

0-511-36649-3

0-511-36586-1

0-511-61950-2

0-511-57405-3

0-511-36771-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 237 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

327.7304

Soggetti

Political culture - United States

Political culture - Europe

Comparative government

United States Politics and government 21st century

Europe Politics and government 21st century

United States Relations Europe

Europe Relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Growing apart? : America and Europe in the twenty-first century / by Sven Steinmo and Jeffrey Kopstein -- The religious divide : why religion seems to be thriving in the United States and waning in Europe / by Steven Pfaff -- Value change in Europe and North America : convergence or something else / by Christopher Cochrane, Neil Nevitte, and Steve White -- On different planets : news media in the United States and Europe / by Donald Morrison -- One ring to bind them all : American power and neoliberal capitalism / by Mark Blyth -- Spreading



the word : the diffusion of American conservatism in Europe and beyond / by Steven Teles and Daniel Kenney -- Work, welfare, and wanderlust : immigration and integration in Europe and North America / by Randall Hansen -- Lost in translation : the transatlantic divide over diplomacy / by Daniel W. Drezner -- The Atlantic divide in historical perspective : a view from Europe / by Laurent Cohen-Tanugi.

Sommario/riassunto

Many thought the 21st century would witness political, economic and even ideological convergence amongst the countries of the West. This has not happened. Today we see America 'growing apart' from her democratic allies and neighbors. Growing Apart shows how the social, political, and economic forces shaping advanced democratic states are pushing America in different directions from the rest of the democratic world and argues that these changes are not the product of any particular president or government. This volume brings together a set of leading scholars who each examine the evolution of different social, political, and economic forces shaping Europe and America. It is the first book to unite the international relations scholarship on transatlantic relations with the comparative politics literature on the varieties of capitalism. Taken together, the essays in this volume address whether the 'West' will continue to remain a coherent entity in the 21st century.