Lessons from Tocqueville in America
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Tocqueville's Fears About the Excess of Individualism and Centralized Authority
In the Tocqueville text, there is a very clear relationship between the journey of the majority and participation. Participation is engaging in deliberation over time. And when you lose the intermediate associations that allowed people to participate in politics on the local level, then they feel the sense of isolation and non-participation he feared.
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