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    comte de Tocqueville (/ˈtɒkvɪl, ˈtoʊkvɪl/ TO(H)K-vil, French: [alɛksi də tɔkvil]; 29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859), usually known as just Tocqueville, was a...
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  • may also refer to: Tocqueville, Eure, France Tocqueville, Manche, France Tocqueville-en-Caux, Seine-Maritime, France Tocqueville-les-Murs, Seine-Maritime...
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    Democracy in America (category Works by Alexis de Tocqueville)
    French work by Alexis de Tocqueville. Its title can be translated literally as Of Democracy in America. In the book, Tocqueville examines the democratic...
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  • The Tocqueville effect (also known as the Tocqueville paradox) is the phenomenon in which, as social conditions and opportunities improve, social frustration...
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    Tocqueville (French pronunciation: [tɔkvil]) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. Communes of the Manche department...
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (AdTI) was a Washington, D.C. based think tank. AdTI was named after the French historian Alexis de Tocqueville. Founded...
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  • The Alexis de Tocqueville Award may refer to a number of awards named after the prominent Frenchman who wrote Democracy in America. The current known...
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  • known for his studies on Alexis de Tocqueville and 18th-century French history. His biography Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1858), written in 1984, and translated...
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  • supermajority rules or consensus democracy. Abandonment of rationality: when, as Tocqueville remembered, a decision "which bases its claim to rule upon numbers, not...
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Tour was a series of programs produced by C-SPAN in 1997 and 1998 that followed the path taken by Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave...
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