Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist
Jon Elster
ISBN: | 9780511738081 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Published: | 27 April, 2009 |
Format: | eBook |
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Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist
Jon Elster
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
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