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『アメリカのデモクラシー』の読まれ方に見るアメリカ : ひとつのアメリカ社会像 ; America Seen from How Democracy in America Is Read : An Integrated Image of American Society
Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America is probably one of the most oftreferred books today in the United States. It is widely seen as the best book ever written on this country, its words endlessly quoted by different political camps which claim the book as their own. This article examines the ways in which the American have read this magnum opus of the Frenchman, especially during the last few decades, on the assumption that their reading is reflecting their perceptions on contemporary American society and its future. The aim of this article is twofold. First, it tries to show that Democracy has long been read in America as an (or, in not a few cases, the) important source to reflect on a remedy for an increasingly "individualistic" and thus "despotic" American society. What the American have commonly found a solution to this problem out of reading the book is the restoration of the tradition of self-government, which is highly hailed by Tocqueville as an admirable feature of American society. Second, this article aims at showing that, although the different political views between conservatives and liberals (one of the most visible political divisions in this society today) are surely affecting the American reading of Democracy, this is only one aspect of the story. Many Americans, whatever their political tendencies are, end up calling for the revival of a self-governed American society as a consequence of studying the book. This common 'conclusion' derived from their reading could be interpreted as a proof that the image that America is the country built on citizens' active participation in public affairs is widely shared among the American themselves. In this considerably diverse society that could fragment at any time potentially, the image has thus been contributing to keeping it in unity, probably to not a small extent.
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Amerika og det gode liv: materiel kultur i Skandinavien i 1950'erne og 1960'erne
In: University of Southern Denmark studies in history and social sciences 425
Forbundsredaktoren har ordet
In: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, Band 112, Heft 3, S. 295-299
ISSN: 0039-0747
Tells the story of Michael Bellesiles, whose book Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture made him initially famous and later on destroyed his career as a historian, and how similar cases are investigated and treated in Sweden. The temptation of cheating is easy to understand in a success-driven culture where status as a researcher is measured by his or her yearly article output. However, weeding out cheaters is hard due to the fine line between carelessness and error, problems of causation and knowledge accumulation, and ideological predispositions. To make matters worse, researchers are not too keen on investigating each other's work, and Sweden lacks an anonymous system to expose research fraud. L. Pitkaniemi
Utvandrarna och den stora depressionen: Svenskamerikaner i trettiotalets malström
In: Emigrantinstitutets Vänners skriftserie 15
Nordic migration: research status, perspectives and challenges ; rapporter til det 27. nordiske historikermøte, Tromsø 11. - 14. august 2011
In: Speculum Boreale 14
Det annorlunda USA
In: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, Band 112, Heft 5, S. 617-632
ISSN: 0039-0747
Herbert Tingsten - kanske en larofader
In: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, Band 113, Heft 2, S. 165-190
ISSN: 0039-0747
Herbert Tingsten (1896-1973) was one of the leading political science scholars in Sweden during the 20th century. In 1935-1946 he was a professor at Stockholm University. In 1946-1959 he was the editor-in-chief of the leading liberal newspaper in Sweden, the Dagens Nyheter. Tingsten's extensive scholarly production can be summed up in four groups. The first group describes the political institutions and rules, e.g. his doctoral thesis about referendum in the United States (1923). The second group contains analyses of political ideas. The third group combines institutional descriptions and analyses of ideas, primarily democratic and totalitarian ones. The fourth group, lastly, consists primarily of Political Behavior (1937). This book, a classic in the study of electoral statistics, gave Tingsten a lasting international acknowledgement. Adapted from the source document.