Soft tyranny
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Soft tyranny
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Soft tyranny is an idea first developed by Alexis de Tocqueville in his 1835 work titled Democracy in America. It is described as the individualist preference for equality and its pleasures, requiring the state – as a tyrant majority or a benevolent authority – to step in and adjudicate. In this regime, political leaders operate under a blanket of restrictions and, while it retains the practical virtues of democracy, citizens influence policymaking through bureaucrats and non-governmental organi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_tyranny
date created:
2007-02-12T03:13:49Z
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2024-09-13T17:17:37Z
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