
Conversations with Tocqueville
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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 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 instead focuses on presenting a cohesive
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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.
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Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Tocqueville and Us
Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Citizen Sovereigns: The Implications of Hamilton's Query and Tocqueville's Conjecture about the Democratic Revolution
Part 4 Part I. Tocquevillian Analytics
Chapter 5 Chapter 3. Tocquevillian Analytics and the Global Democratic Revolution
Chapter 6 Chapter 4. What Kind of Social Scientist Was Tocqueville?
Part 7 Part II. Tocquevillian Analytics and the Contemporary World
Chapter 8 Chapter 5. Racial Equality and Social Equality: Understanding Tocqueville's Democratic Revolution and the American Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1970
Chapter 9 Chapter 6. Democracy? In Guatemala?
Chapter 10 Chapter 7. Grafting the Head of Liberty? Latin America's Move to the Left
Chapter 11 Chapter 8. Th e Peril of Democratic Despotism in West European Egalitarian Democracy
Chapter 12 Chapter 9. Democracy in Russia: A Tocquevillian Perspective
Chapter 13 Chapter 10. Tocqueville in Africa: Analyzing African Local Governance
Chapter 14 Chapter 11. Roots of Democracy in Burma
Chapter 15 Chapter 12. The Road to Democracy in China: A Tocquevillian Analysis
Chapter 16 Chapter 13. Tocqueville and Japan
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