What can American policymakers learn from the experiences of European democracies? While we can look to our own history and to the ideas emanating from our own public sphere, by looking abroad we can also learn lessons from European policies – from both those that have proven successful and those that have failed. The contributors in this volume examine the ways our European allies have dealt with issues such as rising healthcare and pension costs, large-scale immigration, childcare and work-life balance, and climate change, and ask whether such policies might prove effective in the U.S. context. Brief and engaging,
Lessons from Europe? is an ideal supplement for comparative public policy courses and would add a provocative comparative component to U.S. public policy courses.
Table of Content
Chapter 1: Introduction: Why Look to Europe for Lessons? – R. Kelemen
Chapter 2: Gender, Employment, and Parenthood: The Consequences of Work Family Policies – Janet C. Gornick and Ariane Hegewisch
Chapter 3: The Role of Regulation in Health Care Policy – Lawrence D. Brown
Chapter 4: Pensions: Who is Learning from Whom? – Mitchell A. Orenstein
Chapter 5: Labor Market Policy: Toward a ‘Flexicurity’ Model in the US? – Tobias Schulze-Cleven
Chapter 6: Immigration Policy: A Transatlantic Comparison – Martin Schain
Chapter 7: Climate Change Policy: Progress and Persistence – Frank Convery
Chapter 8: Urban Transport: Promoting Sustainability in Germany – Ralph Buehler and John Pucher
Chapter 9: Political Democracy: Consensus Building through Democracy in Europe – Steven Hill
Chapter 10: Transatlantic Lesson-Drawing: Utopia, Road to Ruin, or Source of Practical Advice? – R. Weaver
About the author
R. Daniel Kelemen is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, where he has also served as Director of the Center for European Studies and Jean Monnet Chair in European Union politics. He is also a visiting fellow at Princeton University’s Program in Law and Public Affairs. His research interests include the politics of the European Union, law and politics, comparative political economy, and comparative public policy. He is author of two books – Eurolegalism: The Transformation of Law and Regulation in the European Union (Harvard University Press, 2011) and The Rules of Federalism: Institutions and Regulatory Politics in the EU and Beyond (Harvard University Press, 2004), as well as over forty book chapters and articles, and he is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics (Oxford University Press, 2008). He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of European Public Policy and West European Politics and is a former member of the Executive Committee of the European Union Studies Association. Prior to Rutgers, Kelemen was Fellow in Politics at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. He has been a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a Fulbright Fellow in European Union Studies at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels.
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