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In this timely new study, one of our major political analysts, Seymour Martin Lipset, explores the deeply held but often inarticulated beliefs that shape America's society and thought. Is this country in the throes of a revolution from the right? Is it in decline morally? Is Japan about to replace us as the leading economic power? Why does the United States have the highest crime rate, the most persons per capita in prison? Why is our electoral turnout so low? Why are we the most open, socially mobile society and the most unequally developed nation in income distribution?
斯坦福大学胡佛研究所高级研究员，于2006年12月31日逝世。作者资料详见：http://www.hoover.org/bios/lipset.html
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4、6章谈肯定性行动和知识界中的政治正确风潮起源，将它们视为美国文化价值例外特征相冲突的结果。
Being exceptional does not always mean being "advanced". Meanwhile, "exceptionalism" should be understood and interpreted as a relative concept. America is America because it is built upon the American Creed. Americans are Americans because they can hardly agree on what they want to achieve while they still work together.
123 回答why there is no labor party or socialism in America. “American exceptionalism”。AE强调美国独特的ideologies，（自由主义，个人主义，平等，民粹主义，自由放任主义) 分析社会结构（重点：社会流动），政治结构和这些观念的相互作用如何决定了工人政党的失败。(cf. 马克思主义）（socio-historical determinants？）不同于将欧洲与美国的比较（e.g. feudalism)，lipest比较了加拿大和美国(结构和文化上有更强的相似性)，具体的经验分析跳脱了决定论的框架，但最后他又把这些不同归因到ideology上面...让我觉得他只是建了一个spectrum…
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