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Does Everyone Want Democracy?: Insights from Mongolia
Paula L. W. Sabloff
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Paperback. Challenges the conventional wisdom that democracy is a universal desire, offering a model case study of Mongolian democratization that ties culture, history, and values to the study of political systems. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1FPM; JHM; JPA; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 476.
Do all people desire democracy? For at least a century, the idea that democracy is a universal good has been an article of faith for American policy makers. Paula Sabloff challenges this conventional wisdom about who wants democracy and why. Arguing that certain universal human aspirations exist, she shows how local realities are highly particularistic and explains that culture, history, and values are critical to the study of political systems. Her fascinating study of Mongolia—feudal until it became the first country to follow Russia into communism and now struggling with post-socialist democratization—is a model for investigating how everyday people around ... Read more
Do all people desire democracy? For at least a century, the idea that democracy is a universal good has been an article of faith for American policy makers. Paula Sabloff challenges this conventional wisdom about who wants democracy and why. Arguing that certain universal human aspirations exist, she shows how local realities are highly particularistic and explains that culture, history, and values are critical to the study of political systems. Her fascinating study of Mongolia—feudal until it became the first country to follow Russia into communism and now struggling with post-socialist democratization—is a model for investigating how everyday people around ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Left Coast Press Inc
Condition
New
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
Walnut Creek, United States
ISBN
9781598745665
SKU
V9781598745665
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99-1
About Paula L. W. Sabloff
Paula L. W. Sabloff is a professor at the Santa Fe Institute. She is a political anthropologist who has conducted research in Mexico, the United States, and Mongolia, and taught at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She curated the exhibition "Modern Mongolia: Reclaiming Genghis Khan" at the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) and ... Read more
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