Tocqueville state and political participation

Authors

  • José Otacílio da Silva Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná - UNIOESTE

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2004v9n2p85

Keywords:

State, Political power, Political behavior, Political participation

Abstract

The article has the purpose of analyzing how Alexis of Tocqueville bases the political power -"legitimate monopoly of the use of the physical force" -and how he it explains the citizens' participation in the political decisions. The study could reveal that, to the eyes of Tocqueville, the political power -in the American case -was born from a social pact been celebrated among the Anglo-Americans, in the beginning of XVIIth century, with the purpose of promoting the well general of the English colonies and that the citizens' participation in the political is resulted of a confluence of factors such as social, political, economical, cultural and geographical.

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Author Biography

José Otacílio da Silva, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná - UNIOESTE

Doctor in Language and Culture from the Universidade Federal da Bahia - UFBA. Professor at the Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná - UNIOESTE.

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TOCQUEVILLE, A. A democracia na América. Cia Editora Nacional: São Paulo, 1969.

TOCQUEVILLE, A. O antigo regime e a revolução. Editora da Unb, 1989.

Published

2004-12-15

How to Cite

SILVA, José Otacílio da. Tocqueville state and political participation. Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais, Londrina, v. 9, n. 2, p. 85–104, 2004. DOI: 10.5433/2176-6665.2004v9n2p85. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/9026. Acesso em: 2 oct. 2024.

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