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Lessons from Europe? : what Americans can learn from European public policies / R. Daniel Kelemen, Rutgers University, editor

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Los Angeles : Sage/CQ Press, 2017.
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1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations
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Kelemen, R. Daniel
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Contents
Introduction : why look to Europe for lessons? / R. Daniel Kelemen -- Gender, employment, and parenthood : the consequences of work family policies / Janet C. Gornick and Ariane Hegewisch -- The role of regulation in health care policy / Lawrence D. Brown -- Pensions : who is learning from whom? / Mitchell A. Orenstein -- Labor market policy : toward a "flexicurity" model in the United States? / Tobias Schulze-Cleven -- Immigration policy : a transatlantic comparison / Martin A. Schain -- Climate change policy : progress and persistence / Frank J. Convery -- Urban transport : promoting sustainability in Germany / Ralph Buehler and John Pucher -- Political democracy : consensus building through democracy in Europe / Steven Hill -- Transatlantic lesson-drawing : utopia, road to ruin, or source of practical advice? / R. Kent Weaver.
Summary
What can American policymakers learn from the experiences of European democracies in confronting our common policy challenges? We can look to our own history and to the ideas emanating from our own public sphere, but by looking abroad, we can learn how our European allies have dealt with such issues as rising healthcare and pension costs, large-scale immigration, childcare and work-life balance, and climate change. Simply put, we can learn lessons from European policies that have proven both successful and from approaches that have failed. The contributors in this volume ask whether such policies might prove effective in the U.S. context, as well as what pitfalls we might avoid. Chapters have been written by policy area experts and are geared for an upper-level undergraduate audience ...
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9781483395357 (ebook)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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