Growing Apart?: America and Europe in the 21st Century

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 15
Introduction: Growing Apart?: America and Europe in the Twenty-First Century......Page 19
After the Cold War......Page 22
A New Great Transformation?......Page 23
Religion and Public Values......Page 26
Globalization, Americanization, and the End of the Good Life?......Page 30
Falling Apart?......Page 33
The Transatlantic Divide......Page 35
Conclusion......Page 39
Introduction......Page 42
Understanding the Political Economy of Religion......Page 44
Religion, Belief, and Social Values in Europe and the United States......Page 46
Explaining Religious Variation: The New Paradigm in the Study of Religion......Page 53
Religious Regulation and Its Consequences......Page 54
Moving from Supply to Demand......Page 60
The Return of the Repressed? Religion and the Future of Politics......Page 65
Conclusion......Page 69
Introduction......Page 71
Perspectives on Value Change......Page 72
Data and Methodology......Page 74
Findings: The Rate and Direction of Changing North American and European Values: Growing Together or Growing Apart?......Page 76
Value Dynamics in Europe and North America......Page 80
Conclusion: Convergence, Divergence, or Something Else?......Page 89
Appendix A: Countries, Waves, and Sample Sizes......Page 91
Appendix B: Rotated Factor Analysis (Principal Components Factor)......Page 92
Appendix C: Question Wording, Variable Coding, and Scale Construction I. Religiosity (Scale)......Page 94
3 On Different Planets: News Media in the United States and Europe......Page 98
Common Roots......Page 99
Things Fall Apart......Page 102
So What?......Page 105
Different Folks......Page 108
Different Strokes......Page 111
Thinking Small......Page 114
Convergence of Sorts......Page 120
Looking Forward......Page 122
4 One Ring to Bind Them All: American Power and Neoliberal Capitalism......Page 127
From Interference to Intervention......Page 130
Rethinking the Way the World Works......Page 131
Changing the Way the World Works – and Augmenting American Power......Page 132
Upsetting the Orthodox......Page 133
Taxing Times Ahead......Page 134
The Return to Orthodoxy......Page 135
Neoliberal Lesson #1: Activism Is Harmful to Your Health......Page 136
Neoliberal Lesson #2: You Can’t Trust the Government with Your Money......Page 137
Neoliberal Lesson #3: Government Is Pointless – or Toxic – or Both......Page 138
As Goes America? The U.K. Goes Neoliberal......Page 139
As Goes America? Europe Goes Neoliberal......Page 140
Comparing Europe and the United States......Page 141
Europe and the Politics of “Skin Deep” Neoliberalism......Page 143
Exceptions Don’t Prove Rules: Sweden’s Neoliberal Moment......Page 145
The World Is Not Flat: Globalization and the Myth of European Sclerosis......Page 147
Conclusions: Growing Apart and the Diminution of American Power......Page 150
5 Spreading the Word: The Diffusion of American Conservatism in Europe and Beyond......Page 154
Who Evangelizes? Why Libertarianism Spreads and Social Conservatism Does Not......Page 156
The Origins of a Convergence Strategy......Page 159
Free-Market Think Tanks: What They Do......Page 167
Free-Market Think Tanks: National Constraints and Global Opportunities......Page 172
Driving Policy Change: Developing World Successes, OECD Failures......Page 175
Pension Reform......Page 177
The Flat Tax......Page 180
Conclusion: The Future of Efforts to Spread American Conservatism......Page 185
Appendix: Pension Reform: Private Accounts in Central and Eastern Europe......Page 187
6 Work, Welfare, and Wanderlust: Immigration and Integration in Europe and North America......Page 188
Migration to Europe......Page 190
Migration to the United States......Page 192
Migration Policy in Europe......Page 194
Migration Policy in the United States......Page 196
Immigration Policy since 2000......Page 198
Integrating into What?......Page 204
Introduction......Page 210
The Costs and Benefits of Multilateralism......Page 212
Reviewing the Record......Page 214
The Diplomacy of the \"Grim Trigger\"......Page 219
The Diplomacy of Communicative Action......Page 225
Predicting the Future......Page 226
Europe and the Politics of Atlanticism......Page 229
Continental Drift......Page 234
A Resilient Bond......Page 237
Friends Again: Quick Fix or Strategic Shift?......Page 239
Conclusion......Page 241
Index......Page 243