| Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais | 卷:9 |
| Tocqueville estado e participação política | |
| José Otacílio da Silva1  | |
| [1] Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná; | |
| 关键词: Estado; Poder político; Comportamento político; Participação política.; | |
| DOI : 10.5433/2176-6665.2004v9n2p85 | |
| 来源: DOAJ | |
【 摘 要 】
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.
【 授权许可】
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