After Tocqueville: what are the prospects for global democracy when the American model is in such disrepair?(Ideas)(Alexis de Tocqueville)(Critical essay)

The American Conservative | September 24, 2007| | Copyright

FOR NEARLY TWO centuries, historians have debated whether Alexis de Tocqueville, the author of Democracy in America (the first volume of which was published in 1835, the second in 1840), had an essentially liberal or conservative view of democratic government. There is no question, on the other hand, that Tocqueville believed--he was explicit about this in his writing--that democracy, whether for good or for ill, represented the social and political future, the end toward which Christendom was striving with, he thought, the blessing of God.

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