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Alexis De Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist

Hardcover • 2009 • English

Alexis De Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist

By Jon Elster

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About the book

The book proposes a new interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville that views him first and foremost as a social scientist rather than as a political theorist. Drawing on his earlier work on the explanation of social behavior, Elster argues that Tocqueville's main claim to our attention today rests on the large number of exportable causal mechanisms to be found in his work, many of which are still worthy of further exploration. Elster proposes a novel reading of Democracy in America in which the ke...Show more

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ISBN

9780521518444

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

Alexis De Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist

Format

Hardcover

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