Vicki Birchfield
This book project examines what some commentators have described as a “growing chasm” between Europe and the United States and their respective approaches to global challenges. Unlike much of the previous scholarship which relies predominantly on elite discourse, my study provides a comprehensive assessment of the purported values gap by a providing a systematic, empirical analysis of public attitudes and values in the United States and Europe evaluating both elite and mass opinion as well as gauging the distance between them both within and between societies on both sides of the Atlantic across a range of global issues including: economic governance and managing globalization, technological change and social stability, immigration, climate change and energy security.