 Thus they learn to surrender their own will to that of all the rest and to make their own exertions subordinate to the common impulse, things which it is not less necessary to know in civil than in political associations. Political associations may therefore...  Democracy in America - 125. lappuseautors: Alexis de Tocqueville - 1841Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 lapas
...it is not less necessary to know in civil than in political associations. Political associations • may therefore be considered as large free-schools,...occurrence, and they rarely think at all about it. WTien they are allowed to meet freely for all purposes, they ultimately look upon ! public association... | |
 | Benjamin Aaron, Zvi H. Bar-Niv, Thilo Ramm - 1989 - 696 lapas
...in political associations. Political associations may therefore be considered as large free schools, where all the members of the community go to learn the general theory of association." Associations also make possible the effective expression of political views and thus influence the... | |
 | David Knoke - 1990 - 286 lapas
...otherwise would have always lived apart." Political organizations are "large free schools, where all members of the community go to learn the general theory of association" (p. 116). This civic education function of associations is a central theme in theories of societal... | |
 | Lawrence H. Fuchs - 1990 - 652 lapas
...Americans more loyal to the national community. He described political associations as "large free schools, where all the members of the community go to learn the general theory of associations."4 In their political associations, he wrote, Americans "converse, they listen to one... | |
 | G. Felicitas Munzel - 1999 - 408 lapas
...as an educational agency. "Political associations may therefore be considered as large free schools, where all the members of the community go to learn the general theory of association." This is important: "If men are to remain civilized, or to become so, the art of associating together... | |
 | Larry Diamond - 1999 - 388 lapas
...the young United States. Voluntary "associations may therefore be considered as large free schools, where all the members of the community go to learn the general theory of association."43 And in particular, voluntary participation in horizontal networks breeds the social... | |
 | David Chandler - 2000 - 268 lapas
...educated in the values of democracy through voluntary associations, which served 'as large free schools, where all the members of the community go to learn the general theory of association', is much quoted (Tocqueville, 1945, vol. 2, p. 124). Bruce Parrott, for example, writes that: 'Without... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 2003 - 868 lapas
...in political associations. Political associations may therefore be considered as large free schools, where all the members of the community go to learn the general theory of association. 522 But even if political association did not directly contribute to the progress of civil association,... | |
 | Ben Ross Schneider - 2004 - 340 lapas
...on them for collaborative policy making or to delegate governance functions to them. tree sch(x)ls, where all the members of the community go to learn the general theory of association" ( 1996, 231). For Cohen and Rogers, "associations can function as 'schools of democracy.' Participation... | |
 | Cheryl B. Welch - 2006 - 17 lapas
...political associations. It is they, rather than civil associations, that are the "large free schools" where "all the members of the community go to learn the general theory of association."61 As Tocqueville explains: In their political associations, the Americans of all conditions,... | |
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