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The roots of American exceptionalism : institutions, culture and policies / Charles Lockhart.
- Title
- The roots of American exceptionalism : institutions, culture and policies / Charles Lockhart.
- Author
- Lockhart, Charles, 1944-
- Publication
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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| Text | Request in advance | JK468.P64 L63 2012 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 282 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- How do United States public policies differ from those of other wealthy democracies? Why do they differ? The Roots of American Exceptionalism draws on societies' unique histories, distinctive paths of institutional development and contrasting cultures to explain why they adopt different policies for common problems. It compares the United States with Sweden on tax policy, Canada on financing medical care, France on abortion policy, and Japan on immigration. The book shows that American public policies across these four areas fit a pattern of embodying the fundamental beliefs and value priorities of a particular culture: individualism. And while American public policies are rational from this cultural perspective, the relative strengths and weaknesses of this culturally-constrained rationality are contrasted with those of alternative, more egalitarian and/or hierarchical, culturally-constrained rationalities which prevail in Sweden, Canada, France and Japan.
- Subject
- Political planning > United States
- Comparative government
- Exceptionalism > United States
- Political planning
- Political science & theory > USA
- POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > General
- Political structure & processes > USA
- Politics and government
- Politics and Government
- United States > Politics and government
- Note
- Previous ed.: 2003.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-262) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- Tax regimes in the United States and Sweden -- Financing medical care in the United States and Canada -- Abortion policy in the United States and France -- Immigration and citizenship in the United States and Japan -- Conclusions -- Updating from the perspective of 2011.
- ISBN
- 9780230116764 (pbk.)
- 0230116760 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 756279344
- SCSB-11764063
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library