Anxieties of Democracy: Tocquevillean Reflections on India and the United States

by Ira Katznelson

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198077475
• ISBN13: 9780198077473
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.7"