Anxieties of Democracy

Tocquevillean Reflections on India and the United States
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-807747-3
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

This volume is a comparative study of democracy in India and the United States, using as its basis Alexis de Tocqueville's landmark study Democracy in America. It frames the comparison in terms of the distinct trajectories of the United States and India-the former as moving 'from equality' at birth towards new forms of inequality over time, and the latter moving 'towards equality' from an inegalitarian social order at independence. Examining the experience
of democracy in two of the world's oldest and largest democracies, the essays discuss the effect of democratization on key elements of public life such as citizenship, religion, capitalism, the struggle for equality, and the status of minorities in both the countries.

Zielgruppe

Students and scholars of politics, political sociology, and history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chatterjee, Partha

Katznelson, Ira

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Anxieties of Democracy (Ira Katznelson and Partha Chatterjee)
1: The Empire of Democracy: Reading Indian Politics through Tocqueville (Sudipta Kaviraj)
2: Representation at a Visual Interface: Institutions as Encounters between Early American Government and her Citizens (Daniel Carpenter)
3: Equality and Differentiated Citizenship: A Modern Democratic Dilemma in Tocquevillean Perspective (Rogers M. Smith)
4: An Immense and (In)complete Democracy: A Tocquevillean Perspective on India's Experiment with Democratic Citizenship (Niraja Gopal Jayal)
5: Broken Chains of Memory: Reflections on Negotiated Membership for Jews in the United States (Ira Katznelson)
6: Hinduism and Social Democratization: A Preliminary Sketch (Rajeev Bhargava)
7: Two Banks of the Same River? Social Order and Entrepreneurialism in India (Ashutosh Varshney)
8: After Eden: The Transformation of the Landscape of Political Power in the United States (Margaret Levi)
9: Democracy and Capitalism in India: Pursuing Two Tocquevillean Themes (Partha Chatterjee)
Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Katznelson, Ira
Ira Katznelson is Professor, Department of Political Science and Department of History, Columbia University, New York and President of the American Political Science Association.

Chatterjee, Partha
Partha Chatterjee is Professor, Department of Anthropology and Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University, New York. He is also Honorary Professor of Political Science, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

Partha Chatterjee is Professor, Department of Anthropology and Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University, New York. He is also Honorary Professor of Political Science, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

Ira Katznelson is Professor, Department of Political Science and Department of History, Columbia University, New York and President of the American Political Science Association.