PostNews Online (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
By Mwalimu George NgwaneAlexis de Tocqueville attributed the success of democracy to an unusual national propensity for civic engagement. Recent empirical research in a wide range of contexts has confirmed that the norms and networks of civic engagement (now rebaptised...
The Curious Capitalist (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
... for the end of the federal empire. Perhaps he would discover what the acutely perceptive Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville did in the 1830s, as he wrote in "Democracy in America": that we Americans are an extravagantly creative people in how we generate social forms. "Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations," he wrote....
Law Blog (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
... his alma mater, Mercer University’s law school. He said: In 1835, a young Frenchman by the name of Alexis de Tocqueville came to this country to study our prison system. He stayed for two years and ended up writing Democracy in America, an epic study of our democratic system. He reached many conclusions, and two apply to you. First, he said that almost every problem that arises in...
Hennessy's View (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
It’s first and ten again. Most years New Years just sort of happens. It arrives. Getting out of 2008 felt like we went for it on 4th and 13 deep inside our own territory. We pulled the goalie and went with a sixth attacker. We sent an injured Albert Pujols to pinch hit for our [...] Related posts: A Uniquely American Despotism When I first read Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America,”...
