Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist by Jon Elster

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Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist by Jon ElsterISBN: 9780521740074 Cambridge University Press, 27 April 2009 Paperback, 212 pages The book proposes a new interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville that views him first and foremost as a social scientist rather than as a political theorist. Drawing on his earlier work on the explanation of social behavior, Elster argues that Tocquevilles main claim to our attention today rests on the large number of exportable causal mechanisms to be found in his work,

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