American Exceptionalism in the Age of Obama 1st Edition by Stephen Brooks ISBN 0415636418 9780415636414

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ISBN 10: 0415636418 
ISBN 13: 9780415636414
Author: Stephen Brooks

The election of President Obama in 2008 and the apparent decline of American power in the world has rekindled an old and important debate. Is the United States exceptional in its values and institutions, as well as in the role that it is destined to play in world affairs? In this book, Stephen Brooks argues that American exceptionalism has been and continues to be real. In making this argument he focuses on five aspects of American politics and society that are most crucial to an understanding of American exceptionalism today. They include the appropriate relationship between the state and citizens, religion, socio-economic mobility, America’s role in the world, and ideas about the Constitution. American exceptionalism matters in domestic politics chiefly as a political narrative around which support for and opposition to certain policies, values and vision of American society coalesce. But in world affairs it is not the story but the empirical reality of American exceptionalism that matters. Although the long era of America’s global economic dominance has entered what might be called a period of diminished expectations, the United States remains exceptional—the indispensable nation—in world affairs and is likely to remain so for many years to come.

American Exceptionalism in the Age of Obama 1st Table of contents:

1 Bush, Obama, and the Reemergence of an Old Question
Europe’s President, BHL’s Visit, and the Ambitious Debunking of American Exceptionalism
Is Exceptionalism Real? Does it Matter?
2 State and Society in America
Roots of the Dominant Narrative
The Health Care Debate
The American Conversation on Freedom
Mistrust of the State
3 Religion and American Society
Religiosity
Religion and the Public Conversation
Is America Becoming more like Europe?
4 America’s Role in the World
A Chosen People
Insularity
Public Opinion and America’s Role in the World
From Chosen People to Indispensable Nation to Default Power?
5 Constitutional Exceptionalism
Limited Government
Veneration of the Constitution and its Founders
The Philosophy of Original Intent
Sovereignty
6 The American Dream
Inequality
Mobility
Minorities and the American Dream
Summing Up
7 Still Exceptional, But Does It Matter?
Domestic Politics: American Exceptionalism as Narrative and Litmus Test

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