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Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist
by
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, ...more
Hardcover, 202 pages
Published
April 27th 2009
by Cambridge University Press
(first published 2009)
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