Growing Apart?

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).

Scholars analyze why and how the United States pulled away from its democratic allies following the Cold War.

Introduction: growing apart? America and Europe in the 21st century Sven Steinmo and Jeffrey Kopstein; 1. The religious divide: why religion seems to be thriving in the United States and waning in Europe Steven Pfaff; 2. Value change in Europe and North America: convergence or something else? Christopher Cochrane, Neil Nevitte and Steve White; 3. On different planets: news media in the U.S. and Europe Donald Morrison; 4. One ring to bind them all: American power and neoliberal capitalism Mark Blyth; 5. Spreading the word: the diffusion of American conservatism in Europe and beyond Steven Teles and Daniel Kenney; 6. Work, welfare, and wanderlust: immigration and integration in Europe and North America Randall Hansen; 7. Lost in translation: the transatlantic divide over diplomacy Daniel W. Drezner; 8. The Atlantic divide in historical perspective: a view from Europe Laurent Cohen-Tanugi.