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Author Rahe, Paul Anthony.

Title Soft despotism, democracy's drift : Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the modern prospect / Paul A. Rahe.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009]
©2009

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 Moore Stacks  JC423 .R246 2009    Available  ---
Description xxiii, 374 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-349) and index.
Contents The Modern Republic Examined. Principles ; Uneasiness -- The Modern Republic Revisited. The Enlightenment Indicted ; Sociability as a Malady ; Citizenship as a Remedy -- The Democratic Republic Considered. Democratic Despotism ; American Exceptionalism ; The French Disease ; A Despotism of Administrators.
Subject Democracy.
Democracy.
Republicanism.
Republicanism.
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755.
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755.
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
Democratie.
Liberalisme.
Republikanisme.
ISBN 9780300144925 alkaline paper
030014492X alkaline paper