Alexis de Tocqueville
French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs (1805-1859)
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French diplomat who spent time in America and wrote Democracy in America, a book that basically invented political sociology. His analysis of how regular people lived under different systems still gets cited constantly.
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Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville, was a French diplomat, political philosopher and historian. He is best known for his works Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856). In both, he analyzed the living standards and social conditions of individuals as well as their relationship to the market and state in Western societies. Democracy in America was published after Tocqueville's travels in the United States and is today considered an early work of sociology and political science.
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