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  • Melancholy and Amnesia: Tocqueville's Influence on Australian Democratic Theory

    Author(s)
    Patapan, H
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Patapan, Haig
    Year published
    2003
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    Abstract
    The paper looks at the influence of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America on Australian democracy. It argues that the way Tocqueville approached democracy in America - the questions he posed, the problems he saw, the predictions he made - were influential for subsequent thinkers who examined the newer democracies such as Australia. To bring to light this Tocquevillian influence the paper examines two major works that have Democracy in America as their implicit or acknowledged theoretical starting point: Bryce's Modern Democracies and Hancock's Australia.The paper looks at the influence of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America on Australian democracy. It argues that the way Tocqueville approached democracy in America - the questions he posed, the problems he saw, the predictions he made - were influential for subsequent thinkers who examined the newer democracies such as Australia. To bring to light this Tocquevillian influence the paper examines two major works that have Democracy in America as their implicit or acknowledged theoretical starting point: Bryce's Modern Democracies and Hancock's Australia.
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    Journal Title
    Australian Journal of Politics and History
    Volume
    49
    Issue
    1
    Publisher URI
    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8497.00277
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8497.00277
    Subject
    Policy and administration
    Political science
    Historical studies
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/6473
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