After Tocqueville
The Promise and Failure of Democracy
The End of Democracy? The fall of the Berlin Wall. The collapse of the Iron Curtain. The Orange Revolution. The Arab Spring.The rush of events in recent decades seems to confirm that Alexis de Tocqueville was right: the future belongs to democracy. But take a closer look. The history of democracy since the 1830s, when Tocqueville wrote Democracy in America, reveals a far more complicated picture. And the future, author Chilton Williamson Jr. demonstrates, appears rather unpromising for democratic institutions around the world.The fall of communism sparked the popular notion that the spread of democracy was inevitable. After Tocqueville challe…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Williamson, Chilton
- ISBN: 978-1-4976-2078-0
- EAN: 9781497620780
- Produktnummer: 19296568
- Verlag: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Chilton Williamson Jr. is the author of The Conservative Bookshelf and several other books. A senior editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, he has contributed to Harper’s, the New Republic, the American Spectator, the American Conservative, and many other publications.
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