... to this license, all rights are reserved. This chapter uses the lens of temporality to explore the emergence of the “liberal script” at the beginning of the 19th century. In particular, it employs an intellectual history methodology and focuses on the work of liberal intellectuals such as Alexis de Tocqueville...

... Coleman James decentralization economic growth development North D C ‘path dependence’ Hinze O Moore B democratic citizenship France institutionalism William Kornhauser John Stuart Mill Robert Putnam republicanism Alexis de Tocqueville USA It has been well‐known since the days of Hobbes...

... capabilities approach Alexis de Tocqueville Lord Acton Amartya Sen The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion for equality made vain the hope for freedom. Lord Acton (1895–99) The epigraph, taken from Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-) Acton’s Lectures...

... philanthropy and comments on Alexis de Tocqueville's view on decentralized administration and local voluntary associations as contained in his book Democracy in America. It argues that if institutional philanthropy is interested in a unique and immensely powerful role in American public life...

...This chapter analyzes diagnosis by Alexis de Tocqueville, a French nobleman and a jurist, on America's original constitutionalism of limited powers which readily appears on along with his emphasis upon the judiciary regarding the classic common-law training that shaped America's bar and bench well...

... Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes had been executed during the Terror of 1793–1794. Alexis's father, Hervé de Tocqueville, was imprisoned in the Conciergerie in 1794 at the age of twenty-two. This book is a portrait of Alexis de Tocqueville, his inner life, and the events of his time. It looks...

...The French Revolution of 1789 would continue to shake and transform the social and political landscape of France all through Alexis de Tocqueville's life. Tocqueville, who described himself as a man above parties, politics, and prejudice, was convinced that change and reform were inevitable...

...Friendship was very important to Alexis de Tocqueville, and he wrote a great deal about it. He found in friendship all the qualities of heart and honesty that were in stark contrast to the cold, calculating, contractual nature of politics and the modern world. Despite having only a small circle...

...For Alexis de Tocqueville, life was something to be endured as courageously and as arduously as possible. He often spoke of his abiding melancholy, which sometimes paralyzed him, and tended to see himself as doomed to unhappiness. He insisted that it was useless to pursue happiness as a personal...

...While his thought was not framed by religious concepts or expressed in religious language, Alexis de Tocqueville was trapped in a maze of reason and could not give shape to his spiritual impulses, yet he was constantly moved by religious feelings despite being ill-equipped to express them. He...

...Alexis de Tocqueville's “beau réve,” his great dream, was to recreate a politics of principle in which political life was intertwined with moral questions. He did not listen to Pierre-Paul Royer-Collard's advice that he should delay entering politics because it was not yet the right time...

...In the second volume of his book Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville elaborates the essential aim of aristocratic liberalism: the true task of political leadership was to restore soul to politics. More specifically, they must combine political life with moral consciousness...

...In the introduction to his book Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville proposes a broad historical and philosophical context for his study of democracy. He argues that Western civilization was undergoing a perplexing moral and intellectual transformation that had not only...

...During their journey to America, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont were supposed to study the country's prison system as well as democracy in its most advanced development. However, the two men also made unplanned side trips, twice venturing into what Tocqueville called the wilderness...

...For Alexis de Tocqueville, writing was a moral act. As seen in his book Democracy in America, he was as obsessed with style and language. In this sense, he was similar to Gustave Flaubert, whose Madame Bovary was published in 1854, the same year as Tocqueville's...

...Although Alexis de Tocqueville was neither the first nor the last Frenchman to travel to America in search of the future, he was, and still is, the most insightful and influential of them all. He stood out mainly not only because he raised enduringly meaningful questions about democracy, but also...

...During his journey to America, Alexis de Tocqueville observed many admirable aspects of American life, including its practical political sophistication and egalitarian informality. At the same time, he noted its negative side, including a strain of violence, ruthlessness, inhumanity toward non...

...During his travels in America, Alexis de Tocqueville made notes about people's religious lives and the role that religion played in politics. In his notebooks, he expressed skepticism about the depth of American religious life. He was appalled by American experiential evangelical religion...

...The notebooks kept by Alexis de Tocqueville during his journey to America contain his observations about democracy and its prospects, which are found in his book Democracy in America. In addition to the American penal system, Tocqueville also looks at politics, religion, class...

...Alexis de Tocqueville's theoretical exploration of the probable lines of development of any future democratic culture, along with his painful experience of the degradation of French culture, shaped his ideas about the future of democracy. Tocqueville was concerned about the kind of culture...