Conversations with Tocqueville The Global Democratic Revolution in the Twenty-first Century
by Craiutu, Aurelian; Gellar, Sheldon; Ostrom, Elinor; Ostrom, Vincent; Ostrom, Elinor; Craiutu, Aurelian; Allen, Barbara; Reilly, Charles A.; de Anda, Gustavo Gordillo; Andersson, Krister; Fransen, Frederic; Rutland, Peter; Wunsch, James S.; Myint, Tun; WanFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-02-16
Publisher(s): Lexington Books
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Summary
Addressed to a wide audience, Conversations with Tocqueville argues that "Tocquevillian analytics" can be used to understand developments in non Western as well as Western societies and can be updated to address such issues as globalization, ethnicity, and New World-Old World and East-West dynamics. By drawing on Tocqueville's concepts and ideas, this original, cross-disciplinary book examines the prospects for democracy in Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and invites us to reconsider the virtues and limitations of democratic institutions and principles across the world. Book jacket.
Author Biography
Aurelian Craiutu is associate professor of political science at Indiana University. He is the author of Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires and the editor of Tocqueville on America after 1840 (with Jeremy Jennings) and America through European Eyes (with Jeffrey C. Isaac). Sheldon Gellar is a research associate at Indiana University's Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and author of Democracy in Senegal: Tocquevillian Analytics in Africa. Structural Changes and Colonial Dependency: Senegal 1885-1945, and Senegal: An African Nation between Islam and the West.
Table of Contents
| Preface by Elinor Ostrom and Vincent Ostrom | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Tocqueville and Us | p. 1 |
| Citizen-Sovereigns: The Implications of Hamilton's Query and Tocqueville's Conjecture about the Democratic Revolution | p. 19 |
| Tocquevillian Analytics | |
| Tocquevillian Analytics and the Global Democratic Revolution | p. 33 |
| What Kind of Social Scientist Was Tocqueville? | p. 55 |
| Tocquevillian Analytics and the Contemporary World | |
| Racial Equality and Social Equality: Understanding Tocqueville's Democratic Revolution and the American Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1970 | p. 85 |
| Democracy? In Guatemala? | p. 117 |
| Grafting the Head of Liberty? Latin America's Move to the Left | p. 145 |
| The Peril of Democratic Despotism in West European Egalitarian Democracy | p. 173 |
| Democracy in Russia: A Tocquevillian Perspective | p. 199 |
| Tocqueville in Africa: Analyzing African Local Governance | p. 225 |
| Roots of Democracy in Burma | p. 253 |
| The Road to Democracy in China: A Tocquevillian Analysis | p. 271 |
| Tocqueville and Japan | p. 295 |
| Index | p. 319 |
| Contributors | p. 333 |
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