The Penitentiary and Perfectibility in Tocqueville
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5516533 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joel Schwartz (0000-0001-6168-378X, University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7 |
| Publication date | 1985-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Western Political Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-4078 • E-ISSN: 2325-8675 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/448281 |
| OpenAlex | W4251244034 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
LEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE'S first book, a co-authored study of the American penitentiary system, is a little-known work which is -~ jL nevertheless of considerable theoretical interest.It represents ' See Boesche, 1980 (the only article on Tocqueville's study of the penitentiary of which I am aware), p. 550: "Only two of his commentators [namely Pierson 1938, andDrescher 1968] cast more than an obligatory glance toward Tocqueville's concern with prisons, and even these two merely report Tocqueville's thought, displaying no inclination to analyze its significance."Boesche's article itself is complementary to but quite different from mine: it focuses on democratic despotism, whereas my concern here is with the democratic belief in perfectibility
Psychoanalysis · American Constitutional Law and Politics · European Political History Analysis · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |