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In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville argues that the abolition of the laws of primogeniture and entail in the law of inheritance of private property ( as opposed to inheritance of a monarchy ) result in the more rapid division of land and thus force landed people to seek wealth outside the family estate in order to maintain their previous standard of living, accelerating the death of the landed aristocracy and also quickening the shift to democracy.
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" The Transubstantiation of a Poor White ", in Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward the History of the Part Which Black People Have Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860 – 1880 ( 1935 ).
Costa Rica also participated in the multinational Partnership for Democracy and Development in Central America.
His goal was to make America the " Arsenal of Democracy " which would supply munitions to the Allies.
The notion of a distinctive religious basis for American democracy and culture was first described and popularized by Alexis de Tocqueville in the 1840s, in his influential book, Democracy in America.
Alexis de Tocqueville suggested in Democracy in America that Puritanism was the very thing that provided a firm foundation for American democracy.
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* A New Religious America: Managing Religious Diversity in A Democracy: Challenges and Prospects for the 21st Century by Diana Eck, retrieved 2009-07-16.
The concept that underlies social capital has a much longer history ; thinkers exploring the relation between associational life and democracy were using similar concepts regularly by the 19th century, drawing on the work of earlier writers such as James Madison ( The Federalist Papers ) and Alexis de Tocqueville ( Democracy in America ) to integrate concepts of social cohesion and connectedness into the pluralist tradition in American political science.
Andrew Jackson vs. Henry Clay: Democracy and Development in Antebellum America ( 1998 )
Debs persuaded the American Railway Union membership to join with the Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth to found the Social Democracy of America.
De Tocqueville wrote in his Democracy in America ( 1835 ) that " The absence in the United States of those vast accumulations of wealth which favor the expenditures of large sums on articles of mere luxury ... impact to the productions of American industry a character distinct from that of other countries ' industries.
Dean later formed the activist organization Democracy for America and later was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee ( leader of the Democratic party ) in February 2005.
While at Stanford, Toledo founded and continues to serve as the President of the Global Center for Development and Democracy, based in Latin America, the United States, and the European Union which ' aims to help Peru and Latin American countries build institutional bases for greater stability, with a wide political commitment to democracy, that is decentralized and equal to all ".
It is presented as a tribute to the brave men and courageous women who gave their all so that Democracy might survive, and in the hope that America may continue to remain honorably at Peace.
In The Daily Show with Jon Stewart presents America ( The Book ): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction, a mock civics textbook, Leopold Bloom is mentioned in an example of a letter entitled " Writing your Congressman.
The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America.
* From Árbenz to Zelaya: Chiquita in Latin America, Democracy Now !, July 21, 2009
In response to the pressure exerted on immigrants to culturally assimilate and also as a reaction against the denigration of the culture and " race " of non-Anglo white immigrants by Nativists, intellectuals on the left such as Horace Kallen, in Democracy Versus the Melting-Pot ( 1915 ), and Randolph Bourne, in Trans-National America ( 1916 ), laid the foundations for the concept of cultural pluralism.
** Jon Stewart and the cast of The Daily Show for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents ... America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
The following is from Volume 2, chapter 22, " Why Democratic Nations Naturally Desire Peace and Democratic Armies, War ", 18th paragraph, in his book, Democracy in America:
Khalilzad also currently serves as a Counselor at the Center for Strategic International Studies ( CSIS ) and sits on the Boards of the National Endowment for Democracy ( NED ), America Abroad Media ( AAM ), the RAND Corporation's Middle East Studies Center, the American University of Iraq in Suleymania ( AUIS ), and the American University of Afghanistan ( AUAF ).
Just as one of the great works of the Revolutionary period was written by a Frenchman, so too was one of the great works about America from this generation, viz., Alexis de Tocqueville's two-volume Democracy in America, which ( like the colonial explorers ) described his travels through the young country, making observations about the relations between democracy, liberty, equality, individualism and community.
Its title translates as On Democracy in America, but English translations are usually entitled simply Democracy in America.
Democracy and Alexis
* Criticizing Totalitarian Democracy: Herbert Marcuse and Alexis de Tocqueville ( Zvi Tauber )
* The Alexis de Tocqueville Tour: Exploring Democracy in America
# Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America
* Alexis de Tocqueville publishes the first volume of Democracy in America.
In developing material for his book, Bryce painstakingly reproduced the travels of Alexis de Tocqueville, writer of Democracy in America.
The French writer Alexis de Tocqueville first wrote about it in his 1831 work, Democracy in America:
The phrase gained prominence after its appearance in 1835 in Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville, where it is the title of a section.
He edited the English edition of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America and served as Secretary of State of New York from 1839 to 1841.
He became a good friend of Alexis de Tocqueville ( 1805 – 1859 ), whom he met in 1833 for the first time before the publishing of Democracy in America.
* Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville, introduction by Daniel Coit Gilman, New York, 1898
# Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America
In the late 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America appeared, whose last chapter contained the prophecy that the future belonged to Russia and America.
* Alexis de Tocqueville Institution ( Disinfopedia, Center for Media & Democracy )
* de Tocqueville, Alexis ( 1835, 1840 ), Democracy in America: the Henry Reeve text as revised by Francis Bowen, now further corrected and edited with introduction, editorial notes, and bibliography by Phillips Bradley, ( Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, 1945 ), Chapter V: Spirit of the townships of New England.
* Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Henry Reeve, tr., revised edition ( 2 vols., Cambridge, 1862 )
He also serves on the editorial board of the new bilingual critical edition of Alexis de Tocqueville ’ s Democracy in America.
However, there is no clear reason why, for example, Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America or even Woody Allen's Annie Hall ( in which the protagonist experiences culture shock after traveling to Los Angeles from New York City ) could not be considered cross-cultural works.
* J. B. Steenbergen: Enlightened self-interest in Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America
A major influence on McWilliams's thought was the book Democracy in America by the French theorist Alexis de Tocqueville, and like Tocqueville, McWilliams commended to modern liberal democracy the arts of association and a chastening form of religious faith.
He often spoke admiringly to the Brown community of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America.
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