Conversations with Tocqueville: The Global Democratic Revolution in the Twenty-first Century

366 Pages·2009·2.75 MB·English

by  Sheldon Gellar

Permission is granted by Cambridge University Press for material in chapter 2 of
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appeared in History of Political Thought 26, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 181-86.

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Conversations with Tocqueville: the global democratic revolution in the twenty-
first century / edited by Aurelian Craiutu and Sheldon Gellar.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
9781461633242
1. Democracy. 2. Democracy—History—21st century. 3. Tocqueville, Alexis de,
1805-1859. I. Craiutu, Aurelian. II. Gellar, Sheldon.
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 - Tocqueville and Us
The Nature of the Book
The Structure of the Book
Notes
2 - Citizen-Sovereigns: The Implications of Hamilton’s Query and
Tocqueville’s Conjecture about the Democratic Revolution
Hamilton’s Query
Tocqueville’s Democratic Revolution
The Challenge of Machine Politics and Boss Rule
National Governments and World Affairs
The Intellectual Challenge of Today and Tomorrow
Notes
PART I - Tocquevillian Analytics
3 - Tocquevillian Analytics and the Global Democratic Revolution
4 - What Kind of Social Scientist Was Tocqueville?
PART II - Tocquevillian Analytics and the Contemporary World
5 - Racial Equality and SocialEquality: Understanding Tocqueville’s
Democratic Revolution and the American Civil Rights Movement, 1954-
1970
6 - Democracy? In Guatemala?
7 - Grafting the Head of Liberty? Latin America’s Move to the Left
8 - The Peril of Democratic Despotism in West European Egalitarian
Democracy
9 - Democracy in Russia: A Tocquevillian Perspective
10 - Tocqueville in Africa: Analyzing African Local Governance
11 - Roots of Democracy in Burma
12 - The Road to Democracy in China: A Tocquevillian Analysis
13 - Tocqueville and Japan
Index
Contributors