The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville, Vol. XXVII, n° 2 – 2006 TOCQUEVILLE’S TWO FORMS OF ASSOCIATION: INTERPRETING TOCQUEVILLE AND DEBATES OVER CIVIL SOCIETY TODAY
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The theoretical importance of Tocqueville’s writing about America can be summed up this phrase: Democracy depends on many things besides voting. In this way, he turned Aristotle’s merely political definition on its head, and provided a conceptual translation of what democratic activists, and republican political theorists, had long understood. It is a lesson, I believe, to which many contemporary democratic activists and neo-conservative republican thinkers should return today.
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