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Other international comparisons show that U.S. per capita expenditures on healthcare are by far the highest in the world, followed at some distance by Switzerland and Germany. And in proportion of the GDP spent on education, the United States (with 7.3 percent) ranks second behind South Korea (8.2 percent) and ahead of Denmark (7.1 percent), Iceland (6.7 percent), and Sweden (6.5 percent).
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The proportion of the nations GDP spend on public welfare programs is lower than that in most industrialized nations.
Sayfa 741
Among the world’s other democratic governments, only Israel spends as high a proportion of its budget on defence as the United States.
Sayfa 740
Divided government apparently does not significantly weaken (or strengthen) the federal government’s ability to make public policies. David Mayhew’s careful study of the most important pieces of legislation passed from 1946 to 1990 shows that the rate of production was about the same in periods of divided party control as in periods of unified control.
Sayfa 736
In America, candidates can use parties when they are helpful in campaigns and abandon parties when they are an electoral hindrance, the opposite of the candidate-party relationship in most nations.
Sayfa 733
Bribery is quite rare in everyday American politics, since most interest groups and public officials have decided that giving or taking bribes is either too immoral, too risky, or both.
Sayfa 726
Citizens of France are more likely than citizens of United States, Great Britain, or Germany to participate in demonstrations and political strikes, whereas Americans are more likely to persuade other people how to vote, attend a campaign, meeting and/or rally, work with citizen groups, sign a petition, and/or join in a boycott.
Sayfa 721