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001 2012023936
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005 20121023084850.0
008 120712s2012 deu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012023936
020 $a9781610170222 (hardback)
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050 00 $aJC421$b.W547 2012
082 00 $a321.8$223
084 $aPOL007000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aWilliamson, Chilton.
245 10 $aAfter Tocqueville :$bthe promise and failure of democracy /$cChilton Williamson.
260 $aWilmington, Del. :$bIntercollegiate Studies Institute,$cc2012.
300 $axxii, 264 p. ;$c24 cm.
520 $a"When Alexis de Tocqueville wrote his seminal work Democracy in America (1835), he regarded democracy as the future of the West. Subsequent events, from the collapse of communism to the recent popular uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, seem to confirm his prescience. But a closer look at the history of democracy from the 1830s down to the present reveals a far more complicated picture. In fact, author Chilton Williamson Jr. concludes, the future appears rather unpromising for democratic institutions around the world. After Tocqueville traces that history and examines that future. Williamson shows that in Europe democracy has tended toward socialism, in America toward nationalism. Indeed, the definitions and concepts of "democracy" have become so varied that the very term democracy is in effect meaningless--something upon which people have never been able to agree, and never will"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-245) and index.
650 0 $aDemocracy$xHistory..
650 0 $aDemocracy$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aPolitical science$xHistory.
600 10 $aTocqueville, Alexis de,$d1805-1859$xInfluence.
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy.$2bisacsh