| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 337 pages) |
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Tocqueville and us / Aurelian Craiutu and Sheldon Gellar -- Citizen-sovereigns : the implications of Hamilton's Query and Tocqueville's Conjecture about the democratic revolution / Vincent Ostrom -- Part I. Tocquevillian analytics ; Tocquevillian analytics and the global democratic revolution / Sheldon Gellar -- What kind of social scientist was Tocqueville? / Aurelian Craiutu -- |
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Part II. Tocquevillian analytics and the contemporary world ; Racial equality and social equality : understanding Tocqueville's democratic revolution and the American Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1970 / Barbara Allen -- Democracy? In Guatemala? / Charles A. Reilly -- Grafting the head of liberty? Latin America's move to the left / Gustavo Gordillo de Anda and Krister Andersson -- The peril of democratic despotism in west European egalitarian democracy / Frederic Fransen -- Democracy in Russia : a Tocquevillian perspective / Peter Rutland -- Tocqueville in Africa : analyzing African local governance / James S. Wunsch -- Roots of democracy in Burma / Tun Myint -- The road to democracy in China : a Tocquevillian analysis / Jianxun Wang -- Tocqueville and Japan / Reiji Matsumoto |
| Summary |
The questions and issues raised by Tocqueville in his monumental studies of France and America are just as crucial for understanding the evolution of democracy in the West and the development of democracy in the non-western world. They clearly show the breadth of Tocqueville's contributions to the development of modern social sciences. This book argues that Tocquevillian analytics can be used to understand developments in non-western as well as western societies and be updated to address such issues as globalization, ethnicity, New World-Old World comparisons, and East-West dynamics. The first part of the book examines the basic components of Tocquevillian analytics, outlining its stepwise, interdisciplinary approach to understanding societies and nations. The second part applies the Tocquevillian conceptual framework to the contemporary world and contains individual chapters on various regions of the world: North America, Russia, Western Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Unlike previous collective works on Tocqueville, "Conversations with Tocqueville" does not offer a survey of the authors' views, but focuses on presenting a cohesive theoretical framework of analysis that can then be applied and adjusted to fit a multitude of settings |
| Bibliography |
Includes notes with bibliographical references at chapter ends, and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.
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| SUBJECT |
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 fast |
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Tocqueville, Alexis de. swd |
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Democracy -- History -- 21st century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Democracy
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Demokratie
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gellar, Sheldon. author, editor.
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| LC no. |
2008048287 |
| ISBN |
9781461633242 |
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1461633249 |
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9780739135242 |
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0739135244 |
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