American democracy : from Tocqueville to town halls to Twitter /

In this groundbreaking book, sociologist Andrew Perrin shows that rules and institutions, while important, are not the core of democracy. Instead, as Alexis de Tocqueville showed in the early years of the American republic, democracy is first and foremost a matter of culture, the shared ideas, pract...

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Main Author:	Perrin, Andrew J., 1971- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK ; Malden, Massachusetts : Polity Press, 2014.
Series:	Political sociology series.
Subjects:	Democracy > United States. Citizenship > United States. Political culture > United States. United States > Politics and government.