Growing Apart?: America and Europe in the 21st Century PDF
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P1:KNP 9780521879316pre Kopstein&Steinmo 9780521879316 October1,2007 21:10 This page intentionally left blank P1:KNP 9780521879316pre Kopstein&Steinmo 9780521879316 October1,2007 21:10 GrowingApart? SincetheendoftheColdWar,theUnitedStateshasseemedtobegrowing apart from its democratic neighbors and allies. Why has this happened? Theanswerstothisquestionarefoundinthesocial,political,andeconomic forcesthatshapeadvanceddemocraticstates,ratherthanthecurrentpoli- ciesofparticulargovernments.Thisbookbringstogetherasetofleading scholarswhoexaminetheevolutionofdifferentsocial,political,andeco- nomicforcesshapingEuropeandAmerica.Itisthefirstbooktounitethe internationalrelationsscholarshipontransatlanticrelationswiththecom- parative politics literature on the varieties of capitalism. Taken together, the chapters in this book address whether the “West” will continue to remainacoherententityinthetwenty-firstcentury. JeffreyKopsteinisProfessorofPoliticalScienceandDirectoroftheCentre forEuropean,Russian,andEurasianStudiesattheUniversityofToronto. He is the author of The Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany 1945–1989andcoeditorofComparativePolitics:Interests,Identities,and InstitutionsinaChangingGlobalOrder. ProfessorSvenSteinmoholdsthechairinpublicpolicyandpoliticalecon- omy at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. He is alsoaprofessorattheUniversityofColorado,Boulder,andanhonorary professor at Odense University, Denmark. His writing includes Taxation and Democracy (winner of the 1994 Best Book Prize, Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association), Structuring Poli- tics (coedited with Kathleen Thelen), and Political Evolution and Policy Change(coeditedwithBoRothstein). i P1:KNP 9780521879316pre Kopstein&Steinmo 9780521879316 October1,2007 21:10 ii P1:KNP 9780521879316pre Kopstein&Steinmo 9780521879316 October1,2007 21:10 Growing Apart? America and Europe in the Twenty-First Century Edited by JEFFREY KOPSTEIN UniversityofToronto SVEN STEINMO EuropeanUniversityInstitute iii CAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB28RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521879316 © Cambridge University Press 2008 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2007 ISBN-13 978-0-511-36649-9 eBook (EBL) ISBN-10 0-511-36649-3 eBook (EBL) ISBN-13 978-0-521-87931-6 hardback ISBN-10 0-521-87931-0 hardback ISBN-13 978-0-521-70491-5 paperback ISBN-10 0-521-70491-X paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. P1:KNP 9780521879316pre Kopstein&Steinmo 9780521879316 October1,2007 21:10 To our professors at the University of California, Berkeley v P1:KNP 9780521879316pre Kopstein&Steinmo 9780521879316 October1,2007 21:10 vi P1:KNP 9780521879316pre Kopstein&Steinmo 9780521879316 October1,2007 21:10 Contents Contributors page ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction:GrowingApart?AmericaandEuropeinthe Twenty-FirstCentury 1 SvenSteinmoandJeffreyKopstein 1 TheReligiousDivide:WhyReligionSeemstoBeThriving intheUnitedStatesandWaninginEurope 24 StevenPfaff 2 ValueChangeinEuropeandNorthAmerica:Convergence orSomethingElse? 53 ChristopherCochrane,NeilNevitte,andStephenWhite 3 OnDifferentPlanets:NewsMediaintheUnitedStates andEurope 80 DonaldMorrison 4 OneRingtoBindThemAll:AmericanPowerand NeoliberalCapitalism 109 MarkBlyth 5 SpreadingtheWord:TheDiffusionofAmerican ConservatisminEuropeandBeyond 136 StevenTelesandDanielA.Kenney 6 Work,Welfare,andWanderlust:Immigrationand IntegrationinEuropeandNorthAmerica 170 RandallHansen 7 LostinTranslation:TheTransatlanticDivide overDiplomacy 192 DanielW.Drezner vii P1:KNP 9780521879316pre Kopstein&Steinmo 9780521879316 October1,2007 21:10 viii Contents 8 TheAtlanticDivideinHistoricalPerspective:AView fromEurope 211 LaurentCohen-Tanugi Index 225
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