Tocqueville begins his book by describing the change in social conditions taking place.

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

In his later letters, Tocqueville indicates, however, that he and Beaumont used their official business as a pretext to study American society instead.

Before finishing Democracy in America, Tocqueville believed that Beaumont's study of America would prove more comprehensive and penetrating.

Yet Montesquieu's political treatise had an enormous influence on the work of many others, most notably: Catherine the Great, who produced Nakaz ( Instruction ); the Founding Fathers of the United States Constitution ; and Alexis de Tocqueville, who applied Montesquieu's methods to a study of American society, in Democracy in America.

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.

As de Tocqueville observed, the Puritan's biblical outlook gave America a moral dimension which the Old World lacked.

Alexis de Tocqueville suggested in Democracy in America that Puritanism was the very thing that provided a firm foundation for American democracy.

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.

In the 1830s, French political thinker and historian Alexis de Tocqueville identified one of the key characteristics of America that would later make it so amenable to the development of mass production: the homogeneous consumer base.

De Tocqueville wrote in his Democracy in America ( 1835 ) that " The absence in the United States of those vast accumulations of wealth which favor the expenditures of large sums on articles of mere luxury ... impact to the productions of American industry a character distinct from that of other countries ' industries.

In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville argues that the abolition of the laws of primogeniture and entail in the law of inheritance of private property ( as opposed to inheritance of a monarchy ) result in the more rapid division of land and thus force landed people to seek wealth outside the family estate in order to maintain their previous standard of living, accelerating the death of the landed aristocracy and also quickening the shift to democracy.

In addition, Tocqueville observes that they contributed a synthesis of religion and political liberty in America that was uncommon in Europe, particularly in France.

* Tocqueville, Democracy in America

* The Alexis de Tocqueville Tour: Exploring Democracy in America

* Tocqueville, Democracy in America ( Arthur Goldhammer, trans.

* Tocqueville, Democracy in America ( George Lawrence, trans.

* Tocqueville, Democracy in America ( Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop, trans., ed.

# Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America

* Alexis de Tocqueville publishes the first volume of Democracy in America.

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

Although Tocqueville emphasized the egalitarian nature of early 19th century America, Bryce was dismayed to find vast inequality a half-century later, stating " Sixty years ago, there were no great fortunes in America, few large fortunes, no poverty.

The French writer Alexis de Tocqueville first wrote about it in his 1831 work, Democracy in America:

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.

* American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville, Random House, January 2006, hardcover, 320 pages, ISBN 1-4000-6434-1

He became a good friend of Alexis de Tocqueville ( 1805 – 1859 ), whom he met in 1833 for the first time before the publishing of Democracy in America.

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.

" 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.

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.

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.