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2010.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Many Americans-particularly those involved with the major news media, academia, and the world of policymaking-envision their country becoming an ever more predictable follower of global fashions in everything from health care to climate change, jurisprudence to economic policy. In other words, they look ahead and see a nation that is a somewhat larger version of those that make up the European Union.
But in reality, those who believe that the United States is sliding down from its historical apex-and that we must accordingly downscale our expectations and adopt the assumptions and economy more appropriate to our European friends-are wrong. American exceptionalism has lost none of its momentum, and the United States is becoming more, not less, distinct among the countries of the developed world in its economic, demographic, and cultural evolution
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