Social Mobility and Stability of Democracy: Reevaluating De Tocqueville*

An influential thesis often associated with De Tocqueville views social mobility as a bulwark of democracy:when members of a social group expect to join the ranks of other social groups in the near future, they should have less reason to exclude these other groups from the political process. In this...

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Main Authors: Acemoglu, K. Daron, Egorov, Georgy, Sonin, Konstantin
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2019
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122931

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