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Democratic quality in America and Europe / Stein Ringen -- Liberalism and democracy in America today / John Samples -- The inequality of electoral participation in Europe and America and the politically integrative functions of the welfare state / Jens Alber and Ulrich Kohler -- Income inequality and participation in elections in the United States / Michael P. Mcdonald -- Patterns of state expenditure in Europe and America / Francis G. Castles -- Comparative analyses of stateness and state action: what can we learn from patterns of expenditure? / Neil Gilbert -- Concepts and practices of social citizenship in Europe: the case of poverty and income support for the poor / Chiara Saraceno -- The new American model of work-conditioned public support / Rebecca M. Blank -- Welfare and employment: a European dilemma? / Werner Eichhorst and Anton Hemerijck -- Fulfilling the ballyhoo of a peak economy? the U.S. economic model / Richard B. Freeman -- Egalitarianism versus economic dynamics? an empirical assessment of the Friedman conjecture / Markus Gangl -- Are the inequality and mobility trends of the United States in the European Union's future? / Richard V. Burkhauser and Kenneth A. Couch -- Education in Europe and the Lisbon benchmarks / Jutta Allmendinger -- THE U.S. educational system: can it be a model for Europe? / Patricia Maloney and Karl Ulrich Mayer -- Different countries, different groups, same mechanisms? the structural assimilation of the second generation in Europe (d, f, gb) and the United States / Frank Kalter and Nadia Granato -- Immigration and nativism in the United States and Europe: demography and globalization versus the nation-state / Charles Hirschman and Anthony Daniel Pérez.