Aurelian Craiutu is associate professor of political science at Indiana University and author of Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires, Le Centre introuvable, and In Praise of Moderation.Sheldon Gellar is a research associate at Indiana University’s Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and author of Democracy in Senegal: Tocquevillian Analytics in Africa, Structural Changes and Colonial Dependency: Senegal 1885–1945, and Senegal: An African Nation Between Islam and the West.

Conversations with Tocqueville is a stimulating book, full of powerful and provocative ideas. Aurelian Craiutu and Sheldon Gellar have produced a first-rate collection that significantly enhances our understanding of Tocqueville as a social scientist and shows how his mode of analysis, faithfully recast in the form of Tocquevillian analytics, can be used to uncover and assess the rich diversity of contemporary efforts to achieve democracy in different regions of the world. A masterful blend of political theory and comparative analysis.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Chapter 1. Tocqueville and UsChapter 3 Chapter 2. Citizen Sovereigns: The Implications of Hamilton's Query and Tocqueville's Conjecture about the Democratic RevolutionPart 4 Part I. Tocquevillian AnalyticsChapter 5 Chapter 3. Tocquevillian Analytics and the Global Democratic RevolutionChapter 6 Chapter 4. What Kind of Social Scientist Was Tocqueville?Part 7 Part II. Tocquevillian Analytics and the Contemporary WorldChapter 8 Chapter 5. Racial Equality and Social Equality: Understanding Tocqueville’s Democratic Revolution and the American Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1970Chapter 9 Chapter 6. Democracy? In Guatemala?Chapter 10 Chapter 7. Grafting the Head of Liberty? Latin America’s Move to the LeftChapter 11 Chapter 8. Th e Peril of Democratic Despotism in West European Egalitarian DemocracyChapter 12 Chapter 9. Democracy in Russia: A Tocquevillian PerspectiveChapter 13 Chapter 10. Tocqueville in Africa: Analyzing African Local GovernanceChapter 14 Chapter 11. Roots of Democracy in BurmaChapter 15 Chapter 12. The Road to Democracy in China: A Tocquevillian AnalysisChapter 16 Chapter 13. Tocqueville and Japan

Aurelian Craiutu is associate professor of political science at Indiana University and author of Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires, Le Centre introuvable, and In Praise of Moderation.Sheldon Gellar is a research associate at Indiana University’s Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and author of Democracy in Senegal: Tocquevillian Analytics in Africa, Structural Changes and Colonial Dependency: Senegal 1885–1945, and Senegal: An African Nation Between Islam and the West.

Conversations with Tocqueville is a stimulating book, full of powerful and provocative ideas. Aurelian Craiutu and Sheldon Gellar have produced a first-rate collection that significantly enhances our understanding of Tocqueville as a social scientist and shows how his mode of analysis, faithfully recast in the form of Tocquevillian analytics, can be used to uncover and assess the rich diversity of contemporary efforts to achieve democracy in different regions of the world. A masterful blend of political theory and comparative analysis.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Chapter 1. Tocqueville and UsChapter 3 Chapter 2. Citizen Sovereigns: The Implications of Hamilton's Query and Tocqueville's Conjecture about the Democratic RevolutionPart 4 Part I. Tocquevillian AnalyticsChapter 5 Chapter 3. Tocquevillian Analytics and the Global Democratic RevolutionChapter 6 Chapter 4. What Kind of Social Scientist Was Tocqueville?Part 7 Part II. Tocquevillian Analytics and the Contemporary WorldChapter 8 Chapter 5. Racial Equality and Social Equality: Understanding Tocqueville’s Democratic Revolution and the American Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1970Chapter 9 Chapter 6. Democracy? In Guatemala?Chapter 10 Chapter 7. Grafting the Head of Liberty? Latin America’s Move to the LeftChapter 11 Chapter 8. Th e Peril of Democratic Despotism in West European Egalitarian DemocracyChapter 12 Chapter 9. Democracy in Russia: A Tocquevillian PerspectiveChapter 13 Chapter 10. Tocqueville in Africa: Analyzing African Local GovernanceChapter 14 Chapter 11. Roots of Democracy in BurmaChapter 15 Chapter 12. The Road to Democracy in China: A Tocquevillian AnalysisChapter 16 Chapter 13. Tocqueville and Japan

Aurelian Craiutu is associate professor of political science at Indiana University and author of Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires, Le Centre introuvable, and In Praise of Moderation.Sheldon Gellar is a research associate at Indiana University’s Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and author of Democracy in Senegal: Tocquevillian Analytics in Africa, Structural Changes and Colonial Dependency: Senegal 1885–1945, and Senegal: An African Nation Between Islam and the West.

Conversations with Tocqueville is a stimulating book, full of powerful and provocative ideas. Aurelian Craiutu and Sheldon Gellar have produced a first-rate collection that significantly enhances our understanding of Tocqueville as a social scientist and shows how his mode of analysis, faithfully recast in the form of Tocquevillian analytics, can be used to uncover and assess the rich diversity of contemporary efforts to achieve democracy in different regions of the world. A masterful blend of political theory and comparative analysis.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Chapter 1. Tocqueville and UsChapter 3 Chapter 2. Citizen Sovereigns: The Implications of Hamilton's Query and Tocqueville's Conjecture about the Democratic RevolutionPart 4 Part I. Tocquevillian AnalyticsChapter 5 Chapter 3. Tocquevillian Analytics and the Global Democratic RevolutionChapter 6 Chapter 4. What Kind of Social Scientist Was Tocqueville?Part 7 Part II. Tocquevillian Analytics and the Contemporary WorldChapter 8 Chapter 5. Racial Equality and Social Equality: Understanding Tocqueville’s Democratic Revolution and the American Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1970Chapter 9 Chapter 6. Democracy? In Guatemala?Chapter 10 Chapter 7. Grafting the Head of Liberty? Latin America’s Move to the LeftChapter 11 Chapter 8. Th e Peril of Democratic Despotism in West European Egalitarian DemocracyChapter 12 Chapter 9. Democracy in Russia: A Tocquevillian PerspectiveChapter 13 Chapter 10. Tocqueville in Africa: Analyzing African Local GovernanceChapter 14 Chapter 11. Roots of Democracy in BurmaChapter 15 Chapter 12. The Road to Democracy in China: A Tocquevillian AnalysisChapter 16 Chapter 13. Tocqueville and Japan