Tocqueville’s Reflections on Safeguarding Freedom in a Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12060840 |
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| Authors | William A Donohue (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 389-399 |
| Publication date | 1984-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0730-479X • E-ISSN: 1918-6649 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/ttr.6.2.389 |
| OpenAlex | W3210759927 |
| Language | EN |
To many Americans the ideas of freedom and democracy are inseparable if not synonomous. But students of liberal democracy have been hesitant to conjoin the two values as one property. Tocqueville was clearly one of those students. To be sure, he understood that a link between freedom and democracy could be established. But he did not see the tie as being axiomatic. Freedom for Tocqueville, meant individual independence, individual initiative and the right to participate in the affairs of government and society
Academic freedom · Axiom · Democracy · Epistemology · Government (linguistics · Independence (probability theory · Individualism · Law and economics · Liberal democracy · Political science · Politics · Property (philosophy · Safeguarding · Sociology · Law · Mathematics · Medicine · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence
| Highly cited | No |
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