Transatlantic Divide : Comparing American and European Society

List of Figures viii List of Graphs x List of Tables xi Abbreviations xii The European Union and the United States as two variants of Western modernity 1(28) Alberto Martinelli The economic sphere 29(28) Antonio M. Chiesi Inequality 57(18) Paul W. Kingston Laura M. Holian Family 75(20) Theodore Caplow Salustiano Del Campo Politics and institutional architectures 95(48) Alberto Martinelli Welfare 143(22) Gerard Cornilleau Value change 165(33) Michel Forse Maxime Parodi Religion 198(20) Mathias Bos Kai Hebel Cities 218(28) Patrick Le Gales Mathieu Zagrodzki The American and the European models of society: not so different after all 246(58) Alberto Martinelli Appendix with a synthetic picture of the most relevant trends 304(11) Laurence Duboys Fresney Bibliography 315(20) Notes on Contributors 335(2) Index 337