... on African Americans? advanced economies American exceptionalism economic systems England exceptionalism Gini coefficient homicide imprisonment rates LMEs liberal market economies market economies OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development political systems Scotland surveillance...

...‘American exceptionalism in imprisonment’ has become a useful heuristic for analyzing the extremely high rates of imprisonment in the United States that emerged in the late 20th century. This perspective, however, has largely marginalized violent crime as an important and distinguishing feature...

... familiar forms of national exceptionalism. Drawing selective insights from these accounts, while also questioning aspects of each, the author concludes that the ingrained habit of conflating Englishness with Enoch Powell’s anti-immigrant and anti-EU nationalism has stunted our understanding of this lineage...