Essays Tagged: "Alexis de Tocqueville"
Alexis Charles-Henri-Maurice Clérel de Tocqueville
Alexis Charles-Henri-Maurice Clérel de TocquevilleEn 1831 deux jeunes Français sont ar ... ute;taient membres de la nobilité française, de bons amis et tous parails. L'un etait Alexis de Tocqueville, et l'autre Gustave de Beaumont. La visite a produit le raport sur les prisons ... venu membre de 'Academy of Moral and Political Sciences' et de 'L'Academie Française en 1841.Alexis Charles-Henri-Maurice Clérel de Tocqueville est né à Paris, le 29 Juille ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Collective Thinking
out noticing it, most of our ideas, thoughts, and dreams are governed by the groups we exist within.Alexis de Tocqueville, a writer from the 1800?s, tackled this very issue on his trip to America. He ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Free Political Associations in Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America".
Alexis de Tocqueville holds political associations, an important part of any political party, respon ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
The American Character
, do our own thing." Another historian who comments on the idea of equality within the character is Alexis de Tocqueville's. From his work, Democracy in America, he states "The social state is the pri ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Has 'Majority rule' in South Africa brought with it the 'tyranny of the majority?'
y of the majority' has been explored since the earliest studies on modern democracy. Indeed, it was Alexis de Tocqueville in his Democracy in America who coined the term. It is the capacity of the maj ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
An Analysis of Democracy
pack? What does it really mean? Does it mean that democracy is synonymous with freedom and liberty? Alexis de Tocqueville theorized about the nature of democracy and its dangers to freedom in his book ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
'Major lobbying campaigns typically involve a combination of personal visits, issue analysis, political contributions, grass roots appeals, and public information campaigns.' (Lehne 2001).
al.The interest group in America has been in existence for some time. The French political observer Alexis De Tocqueville described in 1835 how Americans had a tendency to form associations. He also s ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
An essay about individuality, liberty and equality in the context of "Looking Backward: 2000-1887" by Edward Bellamy and Alexis de Tocqueville's, "Democracy in America"
uality? These are two questions which arose while examining Edward Bellamy's, Looking Backward, and Alexis de Tocqueville's, Democracy in America. In Looking Backward, Julian West serves as the narrat ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
DeTocqueville and Mill, and the tyranny of the majority
America was viewed somewhat indifferently by many of the world's prominent political philosophers. Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill existed among those most apprehensive of the democratic e ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
Antebellum Reform
f in order through the single conviction that its only safeguard against itself lies in itself." So Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in admiration of the superior organization of the country in the midst o ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Commentary upon Alexis de Tocqueville
In the very beginning, Alexis de Tocqueville did not intend to write an essay about Ireland but he was shocked by what he s ... ite an essay about Ireland but he was shocked by what he saw in his travel that he decided to write Alexis de Tocqueville's Journey in Ireland, July-August, 1835. This book looks like a travel book bu ... lus in order to feed those whom he prevents from subsisting.' Mr West, Dublin Barrister answered to Alexis that Daniel O'Connell thought that a poor law would be useless adding that England already ha ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
Reconsruction in the views of author E. Foner
ecome free, the [planters] have the incontestable right not to be ruined by the Negroes' freedom." (Alexis de Tocqueville, quoted in Foner, 1983)Eric Foner is an extremely popular historian and his pe ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Alexis De Tocqueville's Thoughts On Early 19th Century America
When Alexis de Tocqueville came to America, he observed many things about American society and government ... ille was amazed at how unrestricted American society was for European-American men. As a Frenchmen, Alexis de Tocqueville came from a society with rigid social norms. So when he witnessed life in Amer ... as worried that an over zealous desire for equality would lead to a socialist government in America.Alexis de Tocqueville was a great admirer of the classless aspects of American democracy amongst Eur ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
American Exceptionalism
tional without comparing it to other countries and cultures. Lipset also mentions the French author Alexis de Toqueville. Toqueville knew quite a bit about other cultures and different countries and y ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Transitioning within the IT department: Ouest's acquisition of EEST and its impact on existing systems
ing systems* * * …everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE, 1805-1859* * * Major changes to be expected Change in corporate objectives ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Technology
The Liberal Democratic State: The End of History or simply another epoch?
d” are symbiotic, when several prominent thinkers have in fact challenged that very assumption.Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy is America (1835-1840) is a somewhat ambivalent exploration o ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
Individualism And Its Place In Society
Place In Society In their literary journeys to describe a great society, both John Stuart Mill and Alexis De Tocqueville encounter the dilemma of how to engage the people of a nation so that they tak ... the individual must be as important as the developing of a nation. Somewhere John Locke is smiling.Alexis De Tocqueville states in Of Individualism In Democratic Countries, ?Individualism is a mature ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Individualism And Its Place In Society
In their literary journeys to describe a great society, both John Stuart Mill and Alexis De Tocqueville encounter the dilemma of how to engage the people of a nation so that they tak ... ividual must be as important as the developing of a nation. Somewhere John Locke is smiling. Alexis De Tocqueville states in Of Individualism In Democratic Countries, "Individualism is a mature ... trength of character, perception and an overall presence of energy. It is quite telling that Alexis De Tocqueville was a member of the French Aristocracy, a group of people who lived life in th ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Tocqueville's Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville?s novel Democracy in America touched on many topics having to do with democrac ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
Book Review - Translation Nation
ves, quoted this from the Bible, and possible many other people like the Puritans and John Wintrop; Alexis de Tocqueville; and President John F. Kennedy when describing American exceptionalism. Protes ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American