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4322833 No.4322833[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

I have to write an essay that analyses a recent event with ideas expressed in Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America.

Any ideas?

>> No.4322837

USA NUMBER 1 THATS ALL U NEED TO KNOW FAGGOT

>> No.4322893

Talk about how the American government has created a Democratic Despotism

>> No.4323056

Thank you

>> No.4323527

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/DETOC/ch4_06.htm

>> No.4323562

Here's your essay OP:

>USA
>democracy
>implying

Turn that into your teacher.

>> No.4323587

America is a money-based aristocracy more than a democracy, atleast on national level.

I think plutocracy was the term.

>> No.4323630

You could throw the hack out the window and instead read Harriet Martineaus Society in America. She was travelling with Touqueville and then continued to travel one more year after he went home.

>> No.4323647

>>4322833
Write a comparison with the UK, on how since the declaration of Independence, the UK has slowly overtaken the USA on personal liberty.

>> No.4324083

>>4323562

This. Quote Chomsky a lot. It'll make your prof wet.

>> No.4324398

I'm considering the possibility writing about soft despotism in the U.S. I also have to analyse the chosen event with an other author we've seen during the session. I think I might get something good with Gordon Tullock, one of the founder of public choice theory.

We've also read Adam Smith, Marx, Hayek, Weber, Karl Polanyi, Ronald Coase, Charles Taylor, Mancur Olson, and many more.