The Mechanisms of the Democracy in the Alexis de Tocqueville political thinking

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  • Tomás Gil TU Berlin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2011.750n4002

Keywords:

Tocqueville, democracy, effects of the equality, political freedom, civil society, religious experience

Abstract


The article intends to reconstruct the functionalist conception of Tocqueville’s democracy, a concept that focus on the beneficial effects of the democracy by describing some of the mechanisms of its practical way of operating.

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Published

2011-08-30

How to Cite

Gil, T. (2011). The Mechanisms of the Democracy in the Alexis de Tocqueville political thinking. Arbor, 187(750), 671–675. https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2011.750n4002

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