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Tocqueville’s Frontiers

Issue Date April 2009
Volume 20
Issue 2
Page Numbers 167-175
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A review of Conversations with Tocqueville: The Global Democratic Revolution in the Twenty-First Century edited by Aurelian Craiutu and Sheldon Gellar and Tocqueville et les frontières de la démocratie by Nestor Capdevila.

About the Author

Ewa Atanassow is a postdoctoral fellow at the Program for Constitutional Government at Harvard University’s Center for Government and International Studies.

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