American Good Fortune and Misperception about the Outside World

The United States has enjoyed power and success unlike that of any other nation. Regardless of what one may think of the exceptionalist rhetoric that infuses American politics, the American national experience, leading to the United States being the world’s sole superpower, is undeniably unusual. Am...

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Published in:Political science quarterly 2016-12, Vol.131 (4), p.685-715
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