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Record W1553722341

Tocqueville's Liberalism: Politics is not Economics

2009· article· en· W1553722341 on OpenAlexaff
Christopher Murphy

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical Theory and Influence
Canadian institutionsMacEwan University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMoresPoliticsDemocracyIndividualismLiberalismContemplationPositive economicsProsperityMaterialismLaw and economicsEnvironmental ethicsPolitical sciencePolitical economySociologyLawEconomicsEpistemologyPhilosophy
DOInot available

Abstract

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What is thought provoking about Alexis de Tocqueville’s account of democracy is that while he defends economic activity as the highest activity to which we can aspire he himself does not take the economic model of human life for granted. This allows him, and us, to understand democracy in a new (or perhaps old) way. According to Tocqueville the logic of equality that drives democratic thinking leads to individualism and materialism of market society that when applied to social networks undermines the foundation of economics in the beliefs and mores of the people. He thus acts as a corrective by demonstrating that the success of an economic community is not independent of the social, cultural, and religious health of that community. Even if economics is the highest good of politics, politics cannot be measured solely in terms of economic outcomes. If democracy requires a return to self-interest properly understood then this return can only be fostered by addressing the excesses of equality and infusing democracy with non-economic contemplation that comes with aristocratic hierarchy.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.310
Threshold uncertainty score0.661

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.294
Teacher spread0.280 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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