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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"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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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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Confining the Demos: Incarceration in Democratic Political Thought
… incarceration and democracy in Plato, Alexis de Tocqueville, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Angela Y. Davis, I analyze the prison as both a site of democratic inequality and constitutive of democratic politics. This dissertation reconstructs the long history of incarceration in democratic political thought, …
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A case study of the role of six Catholic social agencies as mediating structures in social welfare service provision in Virginia
… welfare system. Two mediation theories, by Tocqueville (1840) and Berger and Neuhaus (1977) are tested. The Diocesan agencies are found to vary individually as mediating structures suggesting that religious organizations play diverse roles in social welfare provision in Virginia.
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John Stuart Mill on representative government
… reaction to the political thought of Alexis de Tocqueville. The second is Mill's approach to politics, which leads to an examination of British policies in regard to representation, the Reform Movement, British party politics, the weighted franchise and women's suffrage. Special attention is …
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Educare la democrazia. Educativo e politico nella tradizione liberale
… giuridico-morale (Kant), liberal-democratico (Tocqueville) e sociale (Dewey). Da tale analisi emerge un particolare modello pedagogico, di natura indiretta e asistematica, che pone al centro della propria riflessione la salvaguardia delle prerogative individuali, senza che questo comporti la …
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The jungle in the clearing : space, form and democracy in America, 1940-1949
… of Mussolini's fascist Italy, and what Alexis de Tocqueville identified in 1835 as America's collective individualism, which persisted in the 1940s under the umbrella of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Springboarding from Ernst Cassirer and Susanne Langer's philosophies of symbolic form as …
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Unbound by Law: Association and Autonomy in the Early American Republic
… of joining should entail. By the time Alexis de Tocqueville famously noted in 1831 that Americans were "forever forming associations," they had come to some answers. A revolutionary idea evolved unsteadily through the practical, day-to-day experiences of membership, as men and women began to …
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The Problem of Life: Governing Bodies Before and Beyond Biopolitics
… the theological-political order. Alexis de Tocqueville’s moeurs-politique wildtype governs through the habits, sentiments, and civic practices that democratic equality inscribes upon bodies. Each configuration operates under its own epistemic conditions and reveals a structurally distinct …
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Religious institutions and associational freedom in U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence.
… well as tyranny of the majority, which Alexis de Tocqueville described as the "greatest danger" to the American republic.While the current Supreme Court justices have been unanimous in their opinion that houses of worship should possess at least a certain degree of autonomy, they have been much …
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Education, Aristocracy, and Morality in the Political Thought of François Guizot
… to those of Montlosier, Victor Cousin, Alexis de Tocqueville, and his wife, Pauline de Meulan, this research provides new insights into the complexities of his educational policies. In doing so, it highlights their enduring impact on the structure of French society, particularly in relation to the …
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Rocket states - an analysis of US missile culture
… drawn from the creative mythologies of Alexis de Tocqueville and Thomas Jefferson, the fields of cultural and military studies, theories of technology formulated by Paul Virilio, Jean Baudrillard, Laurence Rickels and Paul N. Edwards, architectural and spatial theories developed by Henri Lefebvre …
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Lincoln's Shakespearean Education
… their husbands. Examples from both Aristotle and Tocqueville support those of Mary Todd and Lady Macbeth. The final substantive chapter discusses Lincoln and Shakespeare’s views of divine and natural right in light of John Neville Figgis, King James, and Leo Strauss’ writings on the topics. The …
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‘Edmund Burke: Religion and Eighteenth-Century Modernity’
… Promise of Conservatism The Legacy of Burke and Tocqueville, (Kansas, USA: University Press of Kansas, 1993); Christopher Hitchens, ‘Reactionary Prophet’, The Atlantic Monthly, 3 (2004), 133–38, (p. 133). <br/>4 J.G.A. Pocock, Barbarism and Religion, 5 vols, (Cambridge: Cambridge University …
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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 …