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"This collection of essays uses Alexis de Tocqueville's writings as a jumping-off point to explore the dilemmas of democratization in the twenty-first century"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Boyd, Richard, 1970-, Atanassow, Ewa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Temas:
Tocqueville, Alexis de, > 1805-1859 > Political and social views.
Tocqueville, Alexis de, > 1805-1859
Democracy.
Democratization.
Démocratisation.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
Democracy
Democratization
Political and social views
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Tocqueville and the frontiers of democracy / Ewa Atanassow and Richard Boyd
  • Part I . The Meaning of Democracy and the Democratic Revolution: 1. Democracy and revolution in Tocqueville: the frontiers of democracy / Nestor Capdevila; 2. The frontier between democracy and aristocracy / Ran Halévi; 3. Tocqueville's Burke, or story as history / Ralph Lerner
  • Part II. Democratization in a Non-Western Context: 4. Tocqueville and religion: beyond the frontier of Christendom / Alan Kahan; 5. Deliberating democratization with Tocqueville: the case of East Asia / Cheryl B. Welch; 6. Tocquevillean thoughts on higher education in the Middle East / Joshua Mitchell
  • Part III. Challenges of Globalization: Democracy, Markets, and Nationhood: 7. Tocqueville and the unsettled global village / Susan McWilliams; 8. Nationhood: democracy's final frontier? / Ewa Atanassow; 9. Commerce, glory, and empire: Montesquieu's legacy / Céline Spector
  • Part IV. Democracy, Imperialism, and Foreign Policy: 10. The surprising M. Tocqueville: necessity, foreign policy, and civic virtue / David Clinton; 11. Democracy and domination: empire, slavery, and democratic corruption in Tocqueville's thought / Jennifer Pitts; 12. Tocqueville and the Napoleonic legend / Richard Boyd
  • Part V. Democracy's Old and New Frontiers: 13. Tocqueville, the problem of equality, and John Ford's Stagecoach / Robert Pippin; 14. The poetry of democracy / Paul Berman; 15. Tocqueville and the local frontiers of democracy / Robert T. Gannett, Jr.
  • Epilogue: new frontiers, old dilemmas / Richard Boyd.

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