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Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface by Elinor Ostrom and Vincent Ostrom; Acknowledgments; 1 Tocqueville and Us Aurelian Craiutu and Sheldon Gellar; 2 Citizen-Sovereigns: The Implications of Hamilton's Query and Tocqueville's Conjecture about the Democratic Revolution Vincent Ostrom; PART I. Tocquevillian Analytics; 3 Tocquevillian Analytics and the Global Democratic Revolution Sheldon Gellar; 4 What Kind of Social Scientist Was Tocqueville? Aurelian Craiutu; PART II. Tocquevillian Analytics and the Contemporary World. |
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5 Racial Equality and Social Equality: Understanding Tocqueville's Democratic Revolution and the American Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1970 Barbara Allen6 Democracy? In Guatemala? Charles A. Reilly; 7 Grafting the Head of Liberty? Latin America's Move to the Left Gustavo Gordillo de Anda and Krister Andersson; 8 The Peril of Democratic Despotism in West European Egalitarian Democracy Frederic Fransen; 9 Democracy in Russia: A Tocquevillian Perspective Peter Rutland; 10 Tocqueville in Africa: Analyzing African Local Governance James S. Wunsch; 11 Roots of Democracy in Burma Tun Myint. |
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12 The Road to Democracy in China: A Tocquevillian Analysis Jianxun Wang13 Tocqueville and Japan Reiji Matsumoto; Index; Contributors. |
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In this book, the collected writers argue 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 WorldDOld World and EastDWest dynamics. This cross-disciplinary book brings together fourteen authors from three continents whose reflections on the prospects for democracy invite us to reconsider the virtues and limitations of democratic institutions and principles across the world. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.
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Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859. |
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Democracy -- History -- 21st century.
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Democracy. |
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History. |
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21st century |
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2000-2099 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Gellar, Sheldon.
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Ostrom, Elinor.
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Crăiuțu, Aurelian.
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Allen, Barbara.
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Reilly, Charles A.
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De Anda, Gustavo Gordillo.
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Andersson, Krister.
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Fransen, Frederic.
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Rutland, Peter.
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Wunsch, James S.
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Myint, Tun.
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Wang, Jianxun.
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Matsumoto, Reiji.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Craiutu, Aurelian. Conversations with Tocqueville : The Global Democratic Revolution in the Twenty-first Century. Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2009 9780739123027 |
| ISBN |
9781461633242 (electronic book) |
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1461633249 (electronic book) |
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9780739135242 (e-book) |
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0739135244 (e-book) |
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9780739123010 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0739123017 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780739123027 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0739123025 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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