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Conversations with Tocqueville - The Global Democratic Revolution in the Twenty-first Century (Paperback, New)
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Conversations with Tocqueville - The Global Democratic Revolution in the Twenty-first Century (Paperback, New)
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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. Among the questions addressed by Tocqueville were: How
does the weight of the past affect the evolution of political
institutions and political behavior? What impact do differences in
physical environment have on the organization of society? What are
the relationships between social equality, freedom, and democracy?
To what extent does centralization destroy the capacity for local
initiative and self-governance? What conditions are needed to
nurture the flourishing of self-governing communities? What
safeguards are needed to preserve freedom and to prevent incipient
democracies from becoming dictatorships? Why has democracy had such
a problem taking hold in many parts of the non-western world? How
should one study democracy in non-western settings? Tocquevillian
analytics can help us provide answers. Addressed to a wider
audience than Tocqueville scholars, the 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 worldDNorth 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 instead focuses
on presenting a cohesive theoretical framework of analysis that can
then be applied and adjusted to fit a multitude of settings.
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