Is America Different? - A New Look At American Exceptionalism

Zusatztext `Is America Different? is a standing invitation to other! parallel conferences in the humanities! arts! and sciences ... Shafer's volume sets an intellectual and scholarly standard for discussion and debate.'American Politics Klappentext In Is America Different? major scholars from the realms of history, politics, economics, and sociology return to the question in the light of changes in the last thirty years and debate an answer which is appropriate to our time. Zusammenfassung Scholars in history, politics, economics and sociology consider "American Exceptionalism" - the perception that there is something different about American life stemming from the origins of the USA and its subsequent evolution - in the light of the changes of the last 30 years. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Seymour Martin Lipset: Overview: American exceptionalism reaffirmed; Daniel Bell: Politics: The 'Hegelian Secret': Civil society and American exceptionalism; Peter Temin: Economics: 'Free land and federalism: American economic exceptionalism; Andrew M. Greeley: Religion: American exceptionalism: The religious phenomenon; Aaron Wildavsky: Culture: Resolved, that individualism and egalitarianism be made compatible in America: Political-cultural roots of exceptionalism; Martin Trow: Education: American Higher Education: 'Exceptional' or just different?; Richard Rose: Public policy: Is American public policy exceptional?; Byron E. Shafer: Afterword: What is the Amerian way? Four themes in search of their next incarnation

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• Authors: B. E. Shafer, Byron E. Shafer, Byron E. (Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Am Shafer
• Assisted by: Byron E. Shafer (Editor), Byron E. (Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government Shafer (Editor), Shafer Byron E. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.1991
• EAN: 9780198277347
• ISBN: 978-0-19-827734-7
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Cultural Studies, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, c 1960 to c 1970, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1970 to c 1980, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989