Tocqueville begins his study of America by explaining the contribution of the Puritans.

The notion of a distinctive religious basis for American democracy and culture was first described and popularized by Alexis de Tocqueville in the 1840s, in his influential book, Democracy in America.

In May 2004, Kenneth Brown of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution made the accusation that major parts of the Linux kernel had been copied from the MINIX codebase, in a book called Samizdat.

In the book, Tocqueville examines the democratic revolution that he believed had been occurring over the past seven hundred years.

Tocqueville described this revolution as a " providential fact " of an " irresistible revolution ," leading some to criticize the determinism found in the book.

This visit resulted in the publication in The Spectator of seven weekly letters, collected in book form at the end of 1847 ( see a letter to de Tocqueville in Mrs Grote's reprint of the Seven Letters, 1876 ).

In developing material for his book, Bryce painstakingly reproduced the travels of Alexis de Tocqueville, writer of Democracy in America.

In the series, " In the Footsteps of Tocqueville ", Lévy imitated his compatriot and predecessor in American critique, Alexis de Tocqueville, criss-crossing the United States, interviewing Americans and recording his observations first for magazine and then book publication.

The Road to Serfdom was to be the popular edition of the second volume of Hayek ’ s treatise entitled “ The Abuse and Decline of Reason ,” and the title was inspired by the writings of the 19th century French classical liberal thinker Alexis de Tocqueville on the “ road to servitude .” The book was first published in Britain by Routledge in March 1944, during World War II, and was quite popular, leading Hayek to call it “ that unobtainable book ,” also due in part to wartime paper rationing.

Samizdat: And Other Issues Regarding the ' Source ' of Open Source Code is a book by Kenneth Brown, which was prereleased in May 2004 and was to be published later that year by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution ( AdTI ).

In this book, de Tocqueville develops his main theory about the French revolution, the theory of continuity, in which he states that even though the French tried to disassociate themselves from the past and from the autocratic old regime, they eventually reverted to a powerful central government.

A major influence on McWilliams's thought was the book Democracy in America by the French theorist Alexis de Tocqueville, and like Tocqueville, McWilliams commended to modern liberal democracy the arts of association and a chastening form of religious faith.

Alexis de Tocqueville visited Knoxville in 1832 as part of his tour of America which he would eventually describe in his famous book, Democracy in America.

In his book Democracy in America, De Tocqueville describes this as " soft oppression.

He was involved in 1994 as writer and reviewer of a report on the issue by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, where he was a senior fellow.

The Tocqueville Connection states: " Most of the ambassadors were appointed by former prime minister Lansana Kouyaté, in office from February 2007 until May 2008 ," raising the possibility that the recall was an attempt on the part of Camara to distance himself from the previous government.

The concept that underlies social capital has a much longer history ; thinkers exploring the relation between associational life and democracy were using similar concepts regularly by the 19th century, drawing on the work of earlier writers such as James Madison ( The Federalist Papers ) and Alexis de Tocqueville ( Democracy in America ) to integrate concepts of social cohesion and connectedness into the pluralist tradition in American political science.

" During this time Houston was interviewed by the author Alexis de Tocqueville, who was traveling in the United States and its territories.

Fishkin cites extensive empirical support for the increase in public spiritedness that is often caused by participation in deliberation, and says theoretical support can be traced back to foundational democratic thinkers such as John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville.

De la démocratie en Amérique ( ; published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840 ) is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville.

In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont were sent by the French government to study the American prison system.

This new way of thinking about civil society was followed by Alexis de Tocqueville and Karl Marx as well.

Philosopher Douglas Kellner traces the identification of American exceptionalism as a distinct phenomenon back to 19th century French observer Alexis de Tocqueville, who concluded by agreeing that the U. S., uniquely, was " proceeding along a path to which no limit can be perceived.

The phrase gained prominence after its appearance in 1835 in Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville, where it is the title of a section.

It was further popularised by John Stuart Mill, who cites de Tocqueville, in On Liberty ( 1859 ).

* Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville, introduction by Daniel Coit Gilman, New York, 1898

Influenced by Alexis de Tocqueville and Augustin Cochin, Furet argues that Frenchmen must stop seeing the revolution as the key to all aspects of modern French history.

Custine was later dubbed by some historians " the de Tocqueville of Russia ".

He was given the Tocqueville Award by the French government in 1995.

Because of this confusion, legal threats and public relations campaigns apparently directed against the kernel, such as those launched by the SCO Group or the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution ( AdTI ), have been misinterpreted by many commentators who assume that the whole operating system is being targeted.

He was responsible for many extremely perceptive and well-executed English translations of major French and Dutch literary works, including works by Émile Zola, Maurice Maeterlinck, Alexis de Tocqueville, Jean Henri Fabre, Maurice Leblanc, Gaston Leroux, François René, vicomte de Chateaubriand, and Louis Couperus.

After Frank Knight protested against naming the group after two “ Roman Catholic aristocrats ” and Ludwig von Mises expressed concern that the mistakes made by Acton and Tocqueville would be connected with the society, the name of the Swiss resort where it convened was used instead.

* de Tocqueville, Alexis ( 1835, 1840 ), Democracy in America: the Henry Reeve text as revised by Francis Bowen, now further corrected and edited with introduction, editorial notes, and bibliography by Phillips Bradley, ( Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, 1945 ), Chapter V: Spirit of the townships of New England.

Thus, Marc Antoine Baudott considered that French temperament inclined rather to equality than liberty, a theme which would be re-used by Pierre Louis Roederer and Alexis de Tocqueville, while Jacques Necker considered that an equal society could only be found on coercion.

Robert Seidenberg, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY, wrote that Chesler defined manhood " with a brilliance and erudition equal to the task ", describing Chesler as men's " Tocqueville ".

Alexis de Tocqueville argued that the Revolution was a manifestation of a more prosperous middle class becoming conscious of its social importance.

In the first half of the 19th century, Alexis de Tocqueville had observations about American life that seemed to outline and define social capital.

Given the social state that was emerging, Tocqueville believed that a " new political science " would be needed.

Tocqueville was one of the first social critics to examine the situation of American women and to identify the concept of Separate Spheres.

Alexis de Tocqueville was apparently the first to use the term social structure ; later, Karl Marx, Herbert Spencer, Max Weber, Ferdinand Tönnies, and Émile Durkheim all contributed to structural concepts in sociology.

On the other hand, Tocqueville proved shortsighted in noting that a democracy's equality of conditions stifles literary development.