The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea That Shaped a Nation

2003

182 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/e56e95374001f6646df925a0232f9a1292c695ba

Citations in the corpus

• The logic of economic development: a definition and model for investment (2016, unknown): “Indeed, the concept of the American Dream is an ideal of a good life based on a classless society with meritocratic advancement and continual progress (Cullen 2003).”
• Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution (2018, unknown): “As explained in Cullen (2004), the U.S. was founded by poor immigrants, who were fleeing persecution and lack of freedom, and established a new living. They believed that in the New World anyone could make it if only they worked hard enough. Europe in contrast was for centuries a feudal society in w”