Federal Liberty and the Art of Association in Tocqueville's Analysis
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1997
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"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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Tocqueville, Alexis de, institutions--theory, Workshop, federalism--theory, constitutional analysis, social organization, history