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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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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Democracy in America (redirect from De la démocratie en Amérique)
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 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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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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Tyranny of the majority (section Alexis de Tocqueville)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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telegraph inventor Charles Wheatstone, the French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville, geologist Charles Lyell, electrical inventor Andrew Crosse and...
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France. Communes of the Manche department Alexis de Tocqueville "HISTORY - Rent the Chateau Alexis de Tocqueville". chateaudetocqueville.com. Retrieved 3...
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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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Parrot and Olivier in America (category Alexis de Tocqueville)
Alexis de Tocqueville", and focuses on Tocqueville's trips to the United States. The novel mimics this life with the fictional character, Olivier de Garmont...
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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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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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subject to approval by the ministers. General Political Climate Alexis de Tocqueville commented that “the collapse of commerce, ubiquitous hostility,...
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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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brother of author Harriet Beecher Stowe. In 1835, French author Alexis de Tocqueville wrote: This Rock is become an object of veneration in the United...
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Mutual liberty (category Alexis de Tocqueville)
Mutual liberty is an idea first developed by Alexis de Tocqueville in his 1835 work Democracy in America. He referred to the general nature of American...
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