Sheldon Gellar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 224355 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sheldon Gellar |
| NOMBRES | Sheldon |
| APELLIDO | Gellar |
| FIRMA | GELLAR S |
| AFILIACIONES | Indiana University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1975 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa
Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa. By Daniel N. Posner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 337p. $70.00 cloth, 26.99 paper. In the popular mind, ethnic conflict in Africa invariably revolves around deep-seated tribal identities and rivalries. Unfortunately, this perspective ignores the fact that Africans, like people everywhere, have multiple group identities. Although Daniel Posner singles out tribal affiliations as an importan…
The Future of Democracy in Africa
In studying the evolution of democracy in Senegal, we attempted to systematically apply the main components of Tocquevillian analytics. Having done so, we concluded that the foundations for democracy have been strengthened in Senegal and that the prospects for democracy there look reasonably good. Rather than presenting Senegalese democracy as an ideal model to be exported to other African countries, following Tocqueville, we shall emphasize some…
Political Associations, Parties, and the Press
Tocqueville asserted that democracy could not sustain liberty and flourish without political associations. Political associations served as “great free schools to which all citizens come to be taught the general theory of association.” Since political parties were not highly structured in his day,Tocqueville often used political parties and political associations interchangeably. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This p…
Tocquevillian Analytics in Africa
In March 1957, Ghana became the first Black African country to gain its independence from a colonial power. To commemorate this momentous event, Life magazine featured a picture of Ghanaian judges grandly attired in powdered wigs and black robes on its cover. Democracy in Africa, in those days, seemed to be simply a matter of the new nations adopting Western models and forms of democracy. These keywords were added by machine and not by the author…
Local Liberties
Unlike formal local government units established as legal entities by the state, for Tocqueville, local communities and institutions were not necessarily creations of the state, but rooted in nature and found among all peoples regardless of their customs and laws. 2 The self-governing institutions found in medieval Europe before the emergence of the centralized monarchies provided the prototype for Tocqueville’s concept of local liberties stressi…
Equality
The breakdown of the old aristocratic order in Senegal following colonial conquest reduced the social gap between the nobility and the lower orders and castes. Tocqueville’s comments about the steady march toward social equality in France could also be applied to Senegal: The noble has gone down in the social scale, and the commoner gone up; as the one falls, the other rises. Each half century brings them closer, and soon they will touch. 2 After…
Democracy in Senegal
This book has traced the evolution of Senegal from a predominantly aristocratic order toward a more democratic order. Rather than placing the emphasis primarily on national elites, political parties, elections, and the state, we have also looked at the movement toward social equality, local liberties, associational life, and ethnic and religious tolerance as crucial components of the democratization process. These keywords were added by machine a…
Spirit of Religion
For Tocqueville, religious faith was an inherent part of human nature and not about to disappear. Religion would survive in democratic times because religious beliefs were deeply rooted in the heart of man, especially the common man. Rather than experiencing greater secularization and decline in religious sentiments with the advance of urbanization and Western education, postcolonial Senegal underwent a period of intense Islamization of society. …
Language
Deeming language to be “the chief tool of thought,” 2 Tocqueville regarded the sharing of a common language as an instrument for bringing people together and cementing their group identity. In Democracy in America , he observed that the Anglo-American identity of the immigrants coming to America from Great Britain was reinforced by the fact that they all spoke English.This sharing of a common language permitted them to communicate easily and to u…
The Art of Association
Tocqueville maintained that civil associations—associations without political objectives—were essential to a vibrant democratic society where individuals sharing common concerns, interests, and views had the freedom to organize civil associations to make their opinions heard and to influence government policy. 2 In democratic societies, civil associations engaged in a myriad of religious, moral, economic, commercial, social, cultural, intellectua…
Point of Departure
Much of the current literature on the processes of democratization in Africa fails to incorporate an analysis of precolonial political institutions, cultures, and patterns of behavior and their impact on current efforts to build and consolidate democratic institutions. Studies of the transition to democracy in Africa usually begin with independence or colonial rule. Tocqueville knew better than to start his study of democracy in America with the …
The Old Order and Colonialism
Although not an epic event like the French Revolution, the French colonial conquest brought about revolutionary changes in Senegal’s aristocratic societies. Political entities like FoutaToro, Baol, Djolof, Cayor, Sine, Saloum, Gajaaga, and Gabou, which had functioned continuously for several centuries as sovereign polities in dealing with Europe, disappeared. (See Map 3.1.) These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process…
Centralization and Democratic Despotism
The evolution of the postcolonial African states had many parallels with what happened in France during and after the French Revolution. While old rulers were replaced, centralization was intensified. The opposition was squashed and often accused of collaborating with foreign powers. Liberties proclaimed in constitutions affirming the rights of man were snuffed out or shunted aside. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Thi…
Democracy in Senegal
Providing an in-depth comparative study of democracy formation, Gellar traces Senegal's movement from a pre-colonial aristocratic order towards a modern democratic political order. Inspired by Tocquev
Senegal
Senegal. An African Nation between Islam and the West
Senegal
1. The Historical Background 2. Government and Politics 3. The Economy 4. Senegal and the World 5. Culture and Society 6. Toward the Year 2000: Whither Senegal
Colonial West Africa
Dominance and Change in North Cameroon
Liberal America and the Third World
Democracy in Senegal
Providing an in-depth comparative study of democracy formation, Gellar traces Senegal's movement from a pre-colonial aristocratic order towards a modern democratic political order. Inspired by Tocquev
Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa
Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa. By Daniel N. Posner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 337p. $70.00 cloth, 26.99 paper. In the popular mind, ethnic conflict in Africa invariably revolves around deep-seated tribal identities and rivalries. Unfortunately, this perspective ignores the fact that Africans, like people everywhere, have multiple group identities. Although Daniel Posner singles out tribal affiliations as an importan…
Colonial West Africa
Dominance and Change in North Cameroon
Liberal America and the Third World
Dominance and Change in North Cameroon
Colonial West Africa
Senegal
1. The Historical Background 2. Government and Politics 3. The Economy 4. Senegal and the World 5. Culture and Society 6. Toward the Year 2000: Whither Senegal
Senegal. An African Nation between Islam and the West
Senegal
The Future of Democracy in Africa
In studying the evolution of democracy in Senegal, we attempted to systematically apply the main components of Tocquevillian analytics. Having done so, we concluded that the foundations for democracy have been strengthened in Senegal and that the prospects for democracy there look reasonably good. Rather than presenting Senegalese democracy as an ideal model to be exported to other African countries, following Tocqueville, we shall emphasize some…
Political Associations, Parties, and the Press
Tocqueville asserted that democracy could not sustain liberty and flourish without political associations. Political associations served as “great free schools to which all citizens come to be taught the general theory of association.” Since political parties were not highly structured in his day,Tocqueville often used political parties and political associations interchangeably. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This p…
Tocquevillian Analytics in Africa
In March 1957, Ghana became the first Black African country to gain its independence from a colonial power. To commemorate this momentous event, Life magazine featured a picture of Ghanaian judges grandly attired in powdered wigs and black robes on its cover. Democracy in Africa, in those days, seemed to be simply a matter of the new nations adopting Western models and forms of democracy. These keywords were added by machine and not by the author…
Local Liberties
Unlike formal local government units established as legal entities by the state, for Tocqueville, local communities and institutions were not necessarily creations of the state, but rooted in nature and found among all peoples regardless of their customs and laws. 2 The self-governing institutions found in medieval Europe before the emergence of the centralized monarchies provided the prototype for Tocqueville’s concept of local liberties stressi…
Equality
The breakdown of the old aristocratic order in Senegal following colonial conquest reduced the social gap between the nobility and the lower orders and castes. Tocqueville’s comments about the steady march toward social equality in France could also be applied to Senegal: The noble has gone down in the social scale, and the commoner gone up; as the one falls, the other rises. Each half century brings them closer, and soon they will touch. 2 After…
Democracy in Senegal
This book has traced the evolution of Senegal from a predominantly aristocratic order toward a more democratic order. Rather than placing the emphasis primarily on national elites, political parties, elections, and the state, we have also looked at the movement toward social equality, local liberties, associational life, and ethnic and religious tolerance as crucial components of the democratization process. These keywords were added by machine a…
Spirit of Religion
For Tocqueville, religious faith was an inherent part of human nature and not about to disappear. Religion would survive in democratic times because religious beliefs were deeply rooted in the heart of man, especially the common man. Rather than experiencing greater secularization and decline in religious sentiments with the advance of urbanization and Western education, postcolonial Senegal underwent a period of intense Islamization of society. …
Language
Deeming language to be “the chief tool of thought,” 2 Tocqueville regarded the sharing of a common language as an instrument for bringing people together and cementing their group identity. In Democracy in America , he observed that the Anglo-American identity of the immigrants coming to America from Great Britain was reinforced by the fact that they all spoke English.This sharing of a common language permitted them to communicate easily and to u…
The Art of Association
Tocqueville maintained that civil associations—associations without political objectives—were essential to a vibrant democratic society where individuals sharing common concerns, interests, and views had the freedom to organize civil associations to make their opinions heard and to influence government policy. 2 In democratic societies, civil associations engaged in a myriad of religious, moral, economic, commercial, social, cultural, intellectua…
Point of Departure
Much of the current literature on the processes of democratization in Africa fails to incorporate an analysis of precolonial political institutions, cultures, and patterns of behavior and their impact on current efforts to build and consolidate democratic institutions. Studies of the transition to democracy in Africa usually begin with independence or colonial rule. Tocqueville knew better than to start his study of democracy in America with the …
The Old Order and Colonialism
Although not an epic event like the French Revolution, the French colonial conquest brought about revolutionary changes in Senegal’s aristocratic societies. Political entities like FoutaToro, Baol, Djolof, Cayor, Sine, Saloum, Gajaaga, and Gabou, which had functioned continuously for several centuries as sovereign polities in dealing with Europe, disappeared. (See Map 3.1.) These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process…
Centralization and Democratic Despotism
The evolution of the postcolonial African states had many parallels with what happened in France during and after the French Revolution. While old rulers were replaced, centralization was intensified. The opposition was squashed and often accused of collaborating with foreign powers. Liberties proclaimed in constitutions affirming the rights of man were snuffed out or shunted aside. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Thi…
Democracy in Senegal
Providing an in-depth comparative study of democracy formation, Gellar traces Senegal's movement from a pre-colonial aristocratic order towards a modern democratic political order. Inspired by Tocquev
Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa
Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa. By Daniel N. Posner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 337p. $70.00 cloth, 26.99 paper. In the popular mind, ethnic conflict in Africa invariably revolves around deep-seated tribal identities and rivalries. Unfortunately, this perspective ignores the fact that Africans, like people everywhere, have multiple group identities. Although Daniel Posner singles out tribal affiliations as an importan…
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