Alexis de Tocqueville

This is a collection of key extracts by, and essays and study guides about Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859).

See the Liberty Matters online discussion of Tocqueville’s New Science of Politics Revisited.

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Tocqueville and Democracy

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Works by The Making of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, Foreword by George W. Pierson (2nd edition) (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2000). EPILOGUE . How Many Democracies?

[Reprinted from Liberty, Equality,…

Tocqueville and Liberty

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Journal: Literature of Liberty: A Review of Contemporary Liberal Thought (1978-1982), 20 vols. ed. Leonard P. Liggio.

Copyright: This work is copyrighted by the Insitute for Humane Studies, George Mason University,…

Tocqueville and Self-government

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Works by Beaumont School of Thought: 19thC French Liberalism School of Thought: utilitarian philosophical radicals

This essay first appeared as an editorial in the journal Literature of Liberty: A Review of…

Tocqueville’s Critique of Socialism (1848)

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Alexis de Tocqueville Topic: Classical Liberal Critique of Socialism

Source: New Individualist Review, editor-in-chief Ralph Raico, introduction by Milton Friedman (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1981). Chapter:…

Tocqueville’s Democracy in America

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Alexis de Tocqueville

Source: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America: Historical-Critical Edition of De la démocratie en Amérique, ed. Eduardo Nolla, translated from the French by James T. Schleifer. A…

Tocqueville: A Bibliography

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Works by The Making of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, Foreword by George W. Pierson (2nd edition) (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2000). Selected Bibliography