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Political Power and Social Change
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The United States Faces a United Europe
Edited by Norman J. Ornstein, Mark Perlman
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000
Political Power and Social Change
Dimensions: 9.5'' x 6.5''
206 pages
AEI Press  (Washington)
Publication Date: November 1991
Hardcover
ISBN: 0844737577

The prospects for European unity excite speculation throughout the world, but especially in the United States. The politics of change in Europe reminds Americans of the difficult but inexorable process of unification that marked the founding of the American nation in the 1780s and 1790s.

The chapters in this volume explore many espects of the political and social change taking place in Europe, noting parallels to the American case.

Norman J. Ornstein is a resident scholar at AEI. Mark Perlman is the University Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh.

 

 

 



Table of Contents

Acknowledgment
Contributors
Introduction

Implications for Federalism of European Integration
Do All Roads Lead to Brussels?
Organized Interests and the Europe of 1992
The Labor Market and Labor Mobility  in the European Community
Public Opinion and Demographic Pressure in the European Community in the 1990s
Demographic Change in Europe and Its Social and Economic Consequences

Notes
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