Federal Liberty and the Art of Association in Tocqueville's Analysis

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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Allen, Barbara
Conference:	Colloquium at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis
Location:	Indiana University, Bloomington
Conf. Date:	April 21, 1997
Date:	1997
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1786
Sector:	Theory History
Region:	North America
Subject(s):	Tocqueville, Alexis de institutions--theory Workshop federalism--theory constitutional analysis social organization history
Abstract:	"Tocqueville's Democracy chronicles the American experiment in self-government in a way that speaks to current scholarship in institutional analysis and development. Through his analysis we learn how institutional change can effect culture. All of the causes that contribute to maintaining a democratic republic in the United States, Tocqueville argued, can be reduced to three points: 1 The peculiar and accidental situation in which Providence has placed the Americans; 2 The laws; 3 The manners and customs of the people."

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