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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Alexis de Tocqueville"”.
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Tocqueville the nationalist : reassessing federalism in Democracy in America
Some read Alexis de Tocqueville as a great proponent of federalism. However, Tocqueville’s account of federalism in Democracy in America is complicated and multifaceted. He discusses the advantages of administrative decentralization, as well as the advantages of governmental centralization. …
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Confining the Demos: Incarceration in Democratic Political Thought
<p>Is imprisonment democratic? On the one hand, incarceration is a space of democratic inequality. Disenfranchised from voting, left off juries, and restricted in speech, the prisoner is excluded from the democratic community. On the other hand, incarceration has a long association with democratic …
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John Stuart Mill on representative government
… interpretations, which stress the systematic and democratic aspects of Mill's thought, it advocates a third position. A broader interpretation is reached by the inclusion and consideration of Mill's political solutions. After a brief discussion of the historical background of late seventeenth- and …
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The jungle in the clearing : space, form and democracy in America, 1940-1949
… The argument begins with a reevaluation of the debate over monumentality initiated in modernist architectural circles, which included such figures as Sigfried Giedion, Lewis Mumford, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, and Philip Johnson. Centering on the city, this debate recast monumentality in terms …
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A Tocquevillean analysis of the democratic peace research program and modern liberal foreign policy
Alexis de Tocqueville is widely hailed as one of the most insightful students of democracy and as one of the most perceptive observers of America. While this high praise is fully deserved, Tocqueville was more than simply the author of Democracy in America. Indeed, he completed the journey that …
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Religious institutions and associational freedom in U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence.
… non-profits, schools, businesses, and student groups at public universities as well. I argue that the protection of religious institutions should concern all citizens because, to say nothing of the sacredness of freedom of conscience, religious institutions play an essential structural …
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Education, Aristocracy, and Morality in the Political Thought of François Guizot
… Guizot (1787-1874), who played a central role in developing public instruction during the July Monarchy. It argues that Guizot’s educational reforms were designed to generate a new aristocracy based on merit that would be compatible with a democratic social order. Throughout his political and …
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Rocket states - an analysis of US missile culture
… aspects in its proliferative connections and modes of association. The study, whose title similarly derives from Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, offers readings of literary, historical and visual texts, and examines the radioactive substance, as well as the cultural implications and material …
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Unbound by Law: Association and Autonomy in the Early American Republic
… observers foreign and domestic would begin to identify the voluntary association as a defining characteristic of post-Revolutionary American culture, Americans who organized and joined such groups had struggled for decades to determine what membership ought to look like, what rights and duties …
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Genèse et crise de la sociologie : étude sur l’épistémologie de Raymond Boudon
La sociologie a proposé une multitude d’explications sur divers phénomènes sociaux. Cependant, plusieurs sociologues, dont Boudon se sont surtout intéressés à l’aspect scientifique de la sociologie. Les questions les plus souvent posées lorsqu’on entreprend de telles études se penchent …