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United in Diversity? - Comparing Social Models in Europe and America (Hardcover, New)
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United in Diversity? - Comparing Social Models in Europe and America (Hardcover, New)
Series: International Policy Exchange Series
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Since the advent of the European Union, politicians have
increasingly emphasized the notion of a European social model as an
alternative to the American form of market capitalism, which is
seen as promoting economic growth without regard for solidarity and
social progress. As this political discourse has advanced, social
scientists and academic policy analysts have raised questions
concerning the extent to which the E.U. and U.S. social models
exist outside the minds of diplomats and politicians seeking to
stitch together a common identity. How much unity is there still
within Europe after the Eastern enlargements have considerably
increased economic and cultural diversity? To whatever extent one
might discern a distinct set of commonalities that represent the
core of a European approach, how different are the European
characteristics of social, economic, and political life from those
of America?
Addressing these issues, this book systematically analyzes how much
European countries and the United States have in common and how
much variation we find within the enlarged European Union in eight
central spheres of socio-economic and political life: employment,
equality/mobility, educational opportunity, integration of
immigrants, democratic functioning, political participation, rights
to welfare, and levels of public spending. Drawing on empirical
analyses by U.S. and European scholars who represent
multi-disciplinary backgrounds, each of these topics is put under
scrutiny. The results of this study illuminate points of
convergence and divergence as seen from the perspectives of
scholars from both sides of the Atlantic.
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