LEADER 02371oam 2200373z- 450 001 9910230799703321 005 20200505172036.0 010 $a88-6728-619-6 035 $a(CKB)3810000000208600 035 $a(BIP)054939659 035 $a(EXLCZ)993810000000208600 100 $a20180916c2015uuuu -u- - 101 0 $aeng 200 04$aThe American exceptionalism revisited /$fedited by Marcello Fantoni and Leonardo Morlino 210 $aRoma $cViella$d2015 215 $a1 online resource (276 p.) 311 $a88-6728-328-6 311 $a88-6728-620-X 330 8 $aWhen looking at the US from a European perspective a sort of paradox immediately emerges. On the one hand, the 'American way of life' has been penetrating in depth our everyday life and, even more, our Western culture through the music, the movies, the literature and all possible consumerist habits. But, on the other hand, all recurrent statements have been emphasizing the 'American exceptionalism' of political institutions, that is, how different and distant the North American institutions are from the European ones with regards to the government leadership, the relationships between existing powers, the connections with the citizens and even the very notion of democracy. This book will not analyze the reasons of such exceptionalism. It addresses a more salient and up to date question: how much exceptionalism is today still present if we compare US democratic institutions to the European ones? In other words, has there been a convergence or are the differences still very strong and accentuated? And if there has been convergence, in what directions? Or if resilient divergences, on what aspects? Moreover, how to explain the convergence, if there has been one? 606 $aExceptionalism$zUnited States$vCongresses 606 $aExceptionalism$zEurope$vCongresses 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y21st century$vCongresses 607 $aEurope$xPolitics and government$y21st century$vCongresses 610 $aUnited states 610 $aEurope 610 $aPolitical science 615 0$aExceptionalism 615 0$aExceptionalism 700 $aMorlino$b Leonardo$f1947-$0120159 702 $aFantoni$b Marcello 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910230799703321 996 $aThe American exceptionalism revisited$94171989 997 $aUNINA