Democracy in Latin America: Political Change in Comparative Perspective examines processes of democratization in Latin America from 1900 to the present. Organized thematically, with a unique historical perspective, the book provides a widespread view of political transformation throughout the entire region. In clear and jargon-free prose, the book: * Traces the origins a...(展开全部)

Alexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocratic French lawyer, came to the United States in 1831 to study its penitentiary systems. His nine-month visit and subsequent reading and reflection resulted in Democracy in America (1835–40), a landmark masterpiece of political observation and analysis. Tocqueville vividly describes the unprecedented social equality he found in America a...(展开全部)

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country's equality of conditions, its democracy. The book he wrote on his return to France, Democracy in America, is both the best ever written on democracy and the best ever written on America. It remains the most often quoted book about the United States...(展开全部)

Alexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocratic French lawyer, came to the United States in 1831 to study its penitentiary systems. His nine-month visit and subsequent reading and reflection resulted in Democracy in America (1835–40), a landmark masterpiece of political observation and analysis. Tocqueville vividly describes the unprecedented social equality he found in America a...(展开全部)

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country's equality of conditions, its democracy. The book he wrote on his return to France, Democracy in America, is both the best ever written on democracy and the best ever written on America. It remains the most often quoted book about the United States...(展开全部)

理查德·雷恩，美国锡拉丘兹大学麦克斯威尔学院政治学博士，现任美国新泽西州立罗格斯大学政治科学教授，管理学院国际企业博士项目组成员，政治科学系民主转型项目组主任。长期致力于政治经济体制的比较研究，曾出版专著《探求正义：学校财政改革的政治学》(1978)， 《新泽西州政治》(1979)，《娱乐场所管理政策：产业政策管制分析》(1986)， 《产业与政治：比较视角下的美国》(1993)等。

Few milestones in human history are as dramatic and momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but scholarly new package, revealing how a new civilization - Latin America - emerged from that encounter. The authors give equal attention to the Spanish and Portu...(展开全部)

The quest for freedom from hunger and repression has triggered in recent years a dramatic, worldwide reform of political and economic systems. Never have so many people enjoyed, or at least experimented with democratic institutions. However, many strategies for economic development in Eastern Europe and Latin America have failed with the result that entire economic systems on b...(展开全部)

亚当·普沃斯基教授，当代美国著名政治学家。1966年在美国西北大学获政治学博士学位，先后任教于华盛顿大学、芝加哥大学与纽约大学，到瑞士、德国、法国、智利、印度、波兰等多个国家做过访问学者。学术研究成果斐然。除了大量的学术论文外，普沃斯基教授还独著、合著或编辑出版了一系列在国际上有重大影响力的学术著作。如《民主、责任与代表》、《可持续性民主》、《资本主义下的国家与经济》等，许多著作一版再版，并被翻译成葡萄牙语、西班牙语、日语、韩语、汉语、土耳其语等多国文字。本书是他的代表作之一。

亚当·普沃斯基教授，当代美国著名政治学家。1966年在美国西北大学获政治学博士学位，先后任教于华盛顿大学、芝加哥大学与纽约大学，到瑞士、德国、法国、智利、印度、波兰等多个国家做过访问学者。学术研究成果斐然。除了大量的学术论文外，普沃斯基教授还独著、合著或编辑出版了一系列在国际上有重大影响力的学术著作。如《民主、责任与代表》、《可持续性民主》、《资本主义下的国家与经济》等，许多著作一版再版，并被翻译成葡萄牙语、西班牙语、日语、韩语、汉语、土耳其语等多国文字。本书是他的代表作之一。