Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859), was a French aristocrat, diplomat, political philosopher, and historian...
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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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Democracy in America (redirect from De la démocratie en Amérique)
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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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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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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Tyranny of the majority (section Alexis de Tocqueville)
various thinkers, including John Stuart Mill in On Liberty and Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America. A tyranny of the majority can ensue when...
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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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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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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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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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Perpetual war (section Alexis de Tocqueville)
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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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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a German-born writer and editor of the works of Alexis de Tocqueville and founder of the Tocqueville Research Centre at the University of Reading where...
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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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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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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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Party of Order (redirect from Parti de l'Ordre)
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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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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Wilson Carey McWilliams, Wendell Berry, Christopher Lasch, and Alexis de Tocqueville. Deneen was a featured speaker at the 2019 National Conservatism...
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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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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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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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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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tradition. Key liberal thinkers who are discussed include John Locke, Alexis de Tocqueville, Hannah Arendt and Edmund Burke. Losurdo argues that the liberal...
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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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though all decisions were subject to approval by the ministers. Alexis de Tocqueville commented that "the collapse of commerce, ubiquitous hostility,...
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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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highwaymen than those of England, an advantage credited by the historian Alexis de Tocqueville to the existence of a uniformed and disciplined mounted constabulary...
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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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