The making of Tocqueville's Democracy in America

Liberty Fund

2000

411 p.

0865972044

Part I. Tocqueville's Second Voyage to America, 1832-1840. 1. The Writing of the First Part of the Democracy --- 2. An Expanding Task Resumed ---- Part II. How to Account for America? Tocqueville Looks at Some Particular Causes Physiques. 3. An Hypothesis Weighed and Rejected --- 4. Further Considerations of Environment --- 5. Was Race a Sufficient Explanation of the American Character? --- 6. The Transformation of a Continent ---- Part III. Tocqueville and the Union: The Nature and Future of American Federalism. 7. The Bond between the States and the Central Government --- 8. A Prophet in Error --- 9. How Large Might a Republic Be? ---- Part IV. Democracy, Centralization, and Democratic Despotisms. 10. Centralization and Local Liberties --- 11. Where Would Power Accumulate? --- 12. Administrative Centralization and Some Remedies --- 13. Tocqueville's Changing Visions of Democratic Despotism ---- Part V. Democracy, the Individual, and the Masses. 14. The Tyranny of the Majority --- 15. The Tyranny of the Majority: Some Paradoxes --- 16. Would Démocratie Usher in a New Dark Ages? --- 17. Démocratie and Egoïsme --- 18. From Egoïsme to Individualisme ---- Part VI. What Tocqueville Meant by Démocratie. 19. Some Meanings of Démocratie --- 20. Tocqueville's Return to America ---- Epilogue: How Many Democracies?

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