Alexis de Tocqueville

Memoir on Pauperism

Essay examining causes of poverty and proposing humanitarian welfare responses

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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville

French political thinker whose Democracy in America remains the most penetrating foreign analysis of American society ever written. He identified both the promise of democratic equality and the threat of its tyrannies—the tyranny of the majority and administrative despotism. His work is as relevant today as when it was written.

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