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    Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (/ˈtɒkvɪl, ˈtoʊkvɪl/ TO(H)K-vil, French: [alɛksi də tɔkvil]; 29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859), usually...
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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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    classic French work by Alexis de Tocqueville. Its title can be translated literally as Of Democracy in America. In the book, Tocqueville examines the democratic...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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 Native American Party Whig Party Think tanks Acton Institute Alexis de Tocqueville Institution American Enterprise Institute American Compass Center...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    subject to approval by the ministers. General Political Climate Alexis de Tocqueville commented that “the collapse of commerce, ubiquitous hostility,...
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  • earned Liu Yu the nickname "China's de Tocqueville," in reference to the French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville who also analysed American democracy...
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    television director Alexis Denisof (born 1966), American actor Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), French political thinker and historian Alexis Dziena (born...
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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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  • 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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    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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    Archived from the original on December 23, 2017. Retrieved December 23, 2017. DePaolo, Joe (November 15, 2019). "Charlie Kirk Shouts 'Fake News' at a Town...
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  • telegraph inventor Charles Wheatstone, the French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville, geologist Charles Lyell, electrical inventor Andrew Crosse and...
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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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    Constable. p. 71. "Portraits / His friends: Francisque de Corcelle". Alexis de Tocqueville 1805. 15 October 2005. Retrieved 27 December 2016. Unger...
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