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Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist (Paperback)
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Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist (Paperback)
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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 key explanatory
variable is the rapid economic and political turnover rather than
equality of wealth at any given point in time. He also offers a
reading of The Ancien Regime and the Revolution as grounded in the
psychological relations among the peasantry, the bourgeoisie, and
the nobility. Consistently going beyond exegetical commentary, he
argues that Tocqueville is eminently worth reading today for his
substantive and methodological insights.
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