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    Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859), was a French aristocrat, diplomat, sociologist, political scientist...
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  • The Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (AdTI) was a Washington, D.C.–based think tank. AdTI was named after the French historian Alexis de Tocqueville. Founded...
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  • social frustration grows more quickly. The effect is based on Alexis de Tocqueville's observations on the French Revolution and later reforms in Europe...
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  • The Alexis de Tocqueville Award may refer to a number of awards named after the prominent Frenchman who wrote Democracy in America. The current known...
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    and the second in 1840) is a classic French work by Alexis de Tocqueville. In the book, Tocqueville examines the democratic revolution that he believed...
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  • of the term "tyranny of the majority" is commonly attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville, who used it in his book Democracy in America. It appears in Part...
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  • The Alexis de Tocqueville Tour was a series of programs produced by C-SPAN in 1997 and 1998 that followed the path taken by Alexis de Tocqueville and...
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  • The Prix Alexis de Tocqueville is an international prize for political literature. It is awarded every two years to a person who has demonstrated outstanding...
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  • Look up Tocqueville in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) was a French political thinker and historian. Tocqueville may also...
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    reformer, and travel companion to the famed philosopher and politician Alexis de Tocqueville. While he was very successful in his lifetime, he is often overlooked...
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  • your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns. Historian Alexis de Tocqueville made predictions in 1840 concerning perpetual war in democratic...
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    The Old Regime and the Revolution (category Works by Alexis de Tocqueville)
    Régime et la Révolution (1856) is a work by the French historian Alexis de Tocqueville translated in English as either The Old Regime and the Revolution...
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  • Soft despotism (category Alexis de Tocqueville)
    Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might...
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  • 1837 The Martyr Age of the United States, 1839 Alexis de Tocqueville (France, 1805–1859) Some literature: De La Démocratie en Amérique, 1831–1840 (Democracy...
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  • philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville, geologist Charles Lyell and his wife Mary Lyell, Mary's sister Frances, the Belgian ambassador Sylvain Van de Weyer, electrical...
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    A History. Michelet, Jules (1847–1856). Histoire de la Révolution française. Tocqueville, Alexis de (1856). L'Ancien régime et la révolution. Lévy. Usually...
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    American exceptionalism (category Alexis de Tocqueville)
    historian Alexis de Tocqueville, most notably in his comparison of the United States with Great Britain and his native France. Tocqueville was the first...
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  • Prominent members included Adolphe Thiers, François Guizot and Alexis de Tocqueville. The party won an absolute majority in the 1849 general election...
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  • professor at the University of Pittsburgh, known for his studies on Alexis de Tocqueville and slavery and his published work Econocide. Seymour Drescher has...
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  • (published by Alfred Protte), which Mayer edited and introduced. Alexis de Tocqueville, Recollections: The French Revolution of 1848, edited and translated...
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    conspiracy theorists. In August 2021, he criticized New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's COVID-19 vaccine passport mandate, as it did not have any exemptions...
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    Channel contributor. She once served as a senior fellow at the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, a conservative Washington, D.C., think tank. She is...
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    earlier, on combinations and strikes. Senior became a good friend of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) whom he met in 1833 for the first time before the publishing...
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  • writer and political/economic theorist. He served as chairman of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (AdTI). Fossedal, Gordon Haff, Benjamin Hart, and Keeney...
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  • Soft tyranny (category Alexis de Tocqueville)
    Soft tyranny is an idea first developed by Alexis de Tocqueville in his 1835 work titled Democracy in America. It is described as the individualist preference...
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    subject to approval by the ministers. General Political Climate Alexis de Tocqueville commented that “the collapse of commerce, ubiquitous hostility,...
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  • DeMint was paid $1 million annually, making him the highest paid think tank president in Washington, D.C. at the time. Some pundits predicted that DeMint...
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Center for Political and Legal Thought, founded in 2007, is a research thematic unit within the Faculty of Law and Administration...
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  • politics: Western social democracy and Eastern bloc Marxist–Leninism. Alexis de Tocqueville's idea of associationalism “...stressed volunteerism, community spirit...
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  • The Conservative Mind (category Alexis de Tocqueville)
    well-known authors such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, Alexis de Tocqueville, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell...
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