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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Gellar, Sheldon |
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Conference:
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Institutional Analysis and Development Mini-Conference and TransCoop Meeting |
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Location:
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Bloomington, Indiana |
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Conf. Date:
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December |
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Date:
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2002 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/9311
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Sector:
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Social Organization |
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Region:
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Africa |
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Subject(s):
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Tocqueville, Alexis de
institutions
political culture
social change
democracy
institutional analysis
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Abstract:
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"Tocqueville underscored the strong connections between political and civil associations. When governments banned political associations and political life, they also discouraged citizens from organizing civil associations. The existence of associations depended on the right to create associations and the willingness of rulers and governments to recognize them. Their patterns of leadership and initiative, however, reflected the kind of society in which they functioned. In Senegal, the problem is not how to foster the art of association among Senegalese, but how the Senegalese can use and adapt their already considerable skills in the art of association to cope with economic scarcity and move forward in the transformation from aristocracy to democracy in such a manner as to preserve their traditional communitarian values."
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