Alexis de Tocqueville: el precursor  de la ciencia política moderna

H. C. F.  Mansilla

doi:10.56487/tgzstz45

Authors

H. C. F. Mansilla Academia Boliviana de Ciencias, La Paz, Bolivia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56487/tgzstz45

Keywords:

Democracy — France — Old regime — Political culture — Revolution — United States

Abstract

The text contains a short biographical sketch and an abstract of the two main works of Tocqueville: Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution. Tocqueville was a pioneer as he established the solid foundations of what now is called the political culture. He combined a wide and systematic gathering of documental data with a critical treatment of themselves. With this procedure Tocqueville was able to formulate a sceptical and differentiated opinion about democracy and the revolutionary attempts of his time.