Western Europe
In this timely and provocative book, Hill, known primarily as an analyst of U.S. state and local reform, argues that the "social capitalist" policies of European countries represent best practices in handling most of the challenges modern democracies face today.
L'Affaire Dreyfus was the most widely debated European political event of the generation before World War I, but Begley, a lawyer, novelist, and historian, struggles to make it all relevant today.
In this provocative polemic, Baldwin, an economist, claims that the European social model does not exist. In most things, he says, the United States resembles, at least in statistical terms, an average European state.
Majone believes that the EU has become a self-perpetuating Brussels-centered system of elitist governance that privileges further integration over sound policy and democratic representation.
Alter is a hardheaded political scientist who recognizes the centrality of traditional factors such as economically self-interested litigants and politicians who support integration, yet she is also a keen legal analyst who acknowledges the ways in which lawyers and judges have forged a limited autonomy for the law.
