Growing Apart?

This book explores the forces pushing America away from its democratic friends and neighbors. It examines the underlying forces shaping the democratic states of the West. Individual chapters pose questions such as: Why is religion so powerful in America? How will the flow of immigration shape politics across the West? Why is Europe rejecting America's version of capitalism? How is the media changing in Europe and America? Why are "Conservatives" so different on each side of the Atlantic? And, finally, what do these competing forces portend for the future of the transatlantic relationship?

Author: Jeffrey Kopstein, Sven Steinmo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/19/2007
Pages: 254
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780521704915

About the Author
Steinmo, Sven: - Professor Sven Steinmo holds the Chair in Public Policy and Political Economy at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. He is also a Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and an Honorary Professor at Odense University, Denmark. His writing includes Taxation and Democracy (Winner, 1994 Best Book Prize, Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association), Structuring Politics (coedited with Kathleen Thelen), and Political Evolution and Policy Change (coedited with Bo Rothstein).Kopstein, Jeffrey: - Jeffrey Kopstein is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany 1945-1989, and coeditor of Comparative Politics: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in a Changing Global Order.