Democracy in Translation
Subtitle: Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture (Wilder House Series in Politics, History, and Culture)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: August 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780801486913
Subjects: Cultural studies; Elections & referenda; Political science & theory; Political structures: democracy; Politics / Current Events; Government - Comparative; Social Science; Politics/International Relations; Senegal; History & Theory - General; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Politics - Current Events; Political Science; Elections; International; Africa; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General
First sentence: T. S. Eliot once wrote that "when a term has become so universally sanctified as 'democracy' now is, I begin to wonder whether it means anything, in meaning too many things" (1940, 11-12).