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United in Diversity? : Comparing Social Models in Europe and America
ISBN: 9780195376630 | 0195376633
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 10/7/2009
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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... MORE
| Introduction | |
| State: Structure and Policy | |
| Democratic Functioning | |
| Democratic Quality in America and Europe | |
| Liberalism and Democracy in America Today | |
| Political Integration | |
| The Inequality of Electoral Participation in Europe and America and the Politically Integrative Functions of the Welfare State | |
| Income Inequality and Participation in United States Elec... MORE | |
| Patterns of Public Expenditure | |
| Patterns of State Expenditure in Europe and America | |
| Comparative Analyses of Stateness and State Action: What Can We Learn From Patterns of Expenditure? | |
| Citizenship and Welfare | |
| Concepts and Practices of Social Citizenship in Europe: The Case of Poverty and Income Support for the Poor | |
| The New American Model of Work-Conditioned Public Support | |
| Society: Conditions and Outcomes | |
| The Goal of Full Employment | |
| Welfare and Employment: a European Dilemma? | |
| Fulfilling the Ballyhoo of a Peak Economy? The US Economic Model | |
| Inequality and Mobility | |
| Egalitarianism versus Economic Dynamics? An Empirical Assessment of the Friedman Conjecture | |
| Are United States Inequality and Mobility Trends in the European Union's Future? | |
| Educational Opportunity | |
| Education in Europe and the Lisbon Benchmarks | |
| The U.S. Educational System: Can it be a Model for Europe? | |
| Immigrant Integration | |
| Different Countries, Different Groups, Same Mechanisms? The Structural Assimilation of the Second Generation in Europe (D, F, GB) and the U.S. | |
| Immigration and Nativism in the United States and Europe: Demography and Globalization versus the Nation-State | |
| Conclusion | |
| The Epistemology of Comparative Analyses: What Do We Know? | |
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Jens Alber is Professor of Sociology at the Free University of Berlin and Director of the Research Unit Inequality and Social Integration at the Social Science Center Berlin.
Neil Gilbert is Chernin Professor of Social Welfare at the School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley, faculty leader of the Center for Comparative Family Welfare and Poverty Research, and was the Founding Director of the Family Welfare Research Group.
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