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Conversations with Tocqueville

Conversations with Tocqueville

Conversations with Tocqueville

Aurelian Craiutu

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
Año de edición:
2009
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Ciencias políticas y teoría
ISBN:
9780739123027
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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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