The United States has not developed a comprehensive welfare state, unlike most other Western countries. This has been subject to a number of different interpretations. One of the prominent theories is that Americans carry a special creed of individuality and liberty that can be traced back to the establishment of the American nation-state. This cultural “American exceptionalism” is argued to be a hindrance to welfare state development in the past as well as in the future. The article challenges this cultural essentialist interpretation by comparing the attitudes toward government responsibility for welfare policies among first-generation American migrants living in Germany, the Netherlands, and Denmark to Americans living in the United States. The article finds, using propensity score matching, that the Americans exposed to the institutional context of Northern European welfares states are more supportive of governmental responsibility for the sick, pensioners, and the unemployed and redistribution than are the American control group members.

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来到欧洲：美国例外论与美国移民对综合福利国家的适应

与大多数其他西方国家不同，美国还没有建立一个全面的福利国家。这受到了许多不同的解释。一个突出的理论是，美国人具有一种特殊的个性和自由信条，这种信条可以追溯到美国民族国家的建立。这种文化上的“美国例外论”被认为是过去和未来福利国家发展的障碍。本文通过比较居住在德国、荷兰和丹麦的第一代美国移民与居住在美国的美国人对政府福利政策责任的态度，挑战了这种文化本质主义的解释。文章发现，使用倾向得分匹配，