TY - BOOK ID - 78340989 TI - Conversations with Tocqueville : the global democratic revolution in the twenty-first century AU - Crăiuțu, Aurelian AU - Gellar, Sheldon PY - 2009 SN - 0739123017 1461633249 9781461633242 9780739135242 0739135244 9780739123010 9780739123027 0739123025 PB - Lanham, Maryland ; Plymouth, England : Lexington Books, DB - UniCat KW - Democracy. KW - Democracy KW - Self-government KW - Political science KW - Equality KW - Representative government and representation KW - Republics KW - History KW - Tocqueville, Alexis de, KW - Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clérel de, KW - Tokvilʹ, Alekseĭ de, KW - De Tokvilʹ, Alekseĭ, KW - Tokvilʹ, Aleksis de, KW - De Tocqueville, Alexis, KW - Tokuviru, Alexis, de, KW - Toqueville, Alexis de, KW - טוקוויל, אלכסיס דה KW - توكڤيل، ألكسي دو، KW - Tūkvīl, Āliksī dū, KW - توکويل، آلکسى دو KW - Clérel, Alexis Henri Charles de, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78340989 AB - 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. ER -