The roots of American exceptionalism...
Lockhart, Charles, (1944-)

 

  • The roots of American exceptionalism[electronic resource] :institutions, culture and policies /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 320.60973
    書名/作者: The roots of American exceptionalism : institutions, culture and policies // edited by Charles Lockhart.
    其他作者: Lockhart, Charles,
    出版者: Basingstoke : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2012.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (1 v.)
    附註: Previous ed.: 2003.
    標題: Political planning - United States.
    標題: POLITICAL SCIENCE - Public Policy
    標題: United States - Economic conditions - To 1865.
    ISBN: 9781137016409 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 113701640X (electronic bk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: 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 --
    摘要、提要註: 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.
    電子資源: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
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