European Political Cultures
Subtitle: Conflict or Convergence?
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 20, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780415138673
First sentence: Belief in the importance of studying the values which underpin politics can be traced back in time through a variety of major, writers, including de Tocqueville in the nineteenth century (who clearly perceive the importance of individualism and the frontier spirit in America politics), and Aristotle and Plato in Ancient Greece (who wrote about a state of mind which encouraged stability or revolution, and the importance of socialisation in forming adults).