Political Sociology
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville • The Equality of Conditions, Local Governance, and the American Republic
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Introduction • The Great Democratic Revolution
"A new science of politics is indispensable to a new world. The gradual development of the equality of condition is therefore a providential fact."
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Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America
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