Democracy in America

Name: Democracy in America
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville

by Alexis de Tocqueville

Analysis of American democracy through institutional structures and cultural habits

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Alexis de Tocqueville

French political thinker whose Democracy in America is the most penetrating analysis of American democracy ever written. He identified both the strengths and the dangers of democratic equality, especially the 'tyranny of the majority' and democratic despotism. His Old Regime and the Revolution analyzes the continuities between the ancien régime and the Revolution.

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