BF190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Participatory Democracy, Alexis De Tocqueville
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~ the greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ~ french - travelled to usa to learn about democracy. If democracy were to work it would be in the new world (us) ~ liberty of the individual is often under threat of the democratic society. ~ key q - how to mitigate the effects of political power. ~ he knew that democracy was coming to the rest of the world so he went to the us to figure out what was and wasn"t working. ~ democratic societies created a new type of power. ~ individuals promise to be an equal participant in the political sphere. Free in the private sphere and equal in the public sphere. Pursuit of happiness - individual wealth - one of the biggest problems of the us. There are always more and more things that push us to think we need more.
