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192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/6881| Title: | Democracy in Senegal Tocquevillian Analytics in Africa |
| Authors: | Sheldon, Gellar |
| Keywords: | Democracy—Senegal—History |
| Issue Date: | 2005 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Description: | I have written this book because I love Senegal and believe in Africa’s future. My interest in Tocqueville began in 1984 when I was a visiting scholar at Indiana University’s Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis headed by Vincent and Elinor Ostrom. Until then, it had never crossed my mind to think of Tocqueville’s work as relevant to Africa.Vincent Ostrom made me realize that Tocqueville, in writing about America, was not just doing a case study but elaborating a methodology—what Ostrom calls Tocquevillian analytics—for studying democracy. After reading Democracy in America carefully for the first time, I turned to another of Tocqueville’s masterpieces, The Old Régime and the French Revolution. In writing about the development of the centralized state and the devastating effects of state tutelage in destroying local initiative in France, Tocqueville seemed to be accurately describing what I had seen in Francophone Africa |
| URI: | http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/6881 |
| ISBN: | 1–4039–7027–0 |
| Appears in Collections: | African Studies |
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