Daniel Laurison

An Exceptional Nation?: American Political Values in Comparative Perspective

December 1, 2012 • Working Papers • By Daniel Laurison and Jerome Karabel

Abstract This paper compares the political values and viewpoints of Americans with those of citizens of 19 other wealthy democracies. Drawing on the long history of scholarship and debate about…

Outlier Nation?: American Exceptionalism and the Quality of Life in the United States

November 1, 2011 • Working Papers • By Daniel Laurison and Jerome Karabel

Abstract This paper presents an Index of Societal Well-Being based on nine domains that represent essential components of a healthy well-functioning society: The Economy, Education, Health, the Polity, the Environment,…