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IF 4.3 1区 社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE Journal of Democracy Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI:10.1353/jod.2022.0031
T. Masoud
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19世纪经典著作《美国民主论》的作者亚历克西斯•德•托克维尔还重要吗?我们今天为什么要去关注一个早已死去的法国贵族和他关于早已死去的美国的游记呢?托克维尔(1805 - 1859)经常被引用,因为他对我们国家的深刻见解(其中一些,比如“美国是伟大的,因为她是优秀的”,他从来没有冒险过),以及他的观察,感觉就像昨天写的一样。有谁不曾对托克维尔对美国总统选举季的常绿描述,或者他对美国和俄罗斯有朝一日将继承世界的不可思议的预言,惊叹过几分钟呢?(诚然,后一种预言可能不会像冷战期间和冷战结束后那样给人留下深刻印象,对于一个了解俄罗斯的人(如果他对俄罗斯有所了解的话)来说,可能会觉得很奇怪,因为他知道俄罗斯是一个无能的独裁者的故乡。)但是,不管托克维尔的部分内容是否仍能引起共鸣,他在1831年和1832年花了9个半月的时间进行的白人移民殖民项目,与近两个世纪后我们称之为美国的多元文化、多种族、喧嚣民主的全球超级大国,有什么可怀疑的吗?如果今天的年轻人想知道,除了一些历史趣闻,我们还能从《美国的民主》一书中了解到关于美国民主的什么,我们能原谅他吗?
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Does Alexis de Tocqueville—the author of the nineteenth-century classic Democracy in America—still matter? Why should any of us today pay heed to a long-dead French aristocrat and his travelogue of a longdead version of America? Tocqueville (1805–59) is often invoked for his supposedly deep insights into our country (a few of which, like the line that “America is great because she is good,” he never ventured), and for observations that feel like they could have been written yesterday. Who has not spent a few minutes marveling at Tocqueville’s evergreen depiction of a U.S. presidential election season, or at his uncanny prediction that the United States and Russia would one day inherit the world? (Admittedly, that latter prognostication probably does not impress the way it did during and right after the Cold War, and might seem positively bizarre to a Zoomer who knows Russia, if he knows it at all, as the home of a tinpot dictator.) But, regardless of whether bits of Tocqueville still resonate, can there be any doubt that the whites-only settler-colonial project that he toured for nine and a half months in 1831 and 1832 is a far cry from the multicultural, multiracial, raucously democratic, global superpower we call the United States almost two centuries later? Could a young person today be forgiven for wondering what we can possibly glean, aside from a few nuggets of historical interest, about democracy in America from Democracy in America?
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Journal of Democracy
Journal of Democracy POLITICAL SCIENCE-
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期刊介绍: Since its inception in 1990, the Journal of Democracy has become an influential international forum for scholarly analysis and competing democratic viewpoints. Its articles have been cited in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and widely reprinted in many languages. Focusing exclusively on democracy, the Journal monitors and analyzes democratic regimes and movements in scores of countries around the world. Each issue features a unique blend of scholarly analysis, reports from democratic activists, updates on news and elections, and reviews of important recent books.
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