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

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 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.

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

As Sheldon Wolin puts it, " Tocqueville was aware of the harshness and bigotry of the early colonists "; but on the other hand he saw them as " archaic survivals, not only in their piety and discipline but in their democratic practices ".

The theme of a religious basis of economic discipline is echoed in sociologist Max Weber's work, but both de Tocqueville and Weber argued that this discipline was not a force of economic determinism, but one factor among many that should be considered when evaluating the relative economic success of the Puritans.

Thus they got under influence of neoliberal ideologies since Tocqueville was a liberal, not a republican theorist, giving new impetus to their work.

The concept originates from Alexis de Tocqueville, who asserted that the then-50-year-old United States held a special place among nations because it was a country of immigrants and the first modern democracy.

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

He struck up a friendship and had voluminous correspondence with Alexis de Tocqueville, who brought him into the foreign ministry while he was foreign minister during the Second Republic.

Palmerston privately congratulated Napoleon on his triumph, noting that Britain's constitution was rooted in history but that France had had five revolutions since 1789, with the French Constitution of 1850 being a " day-before-yesterday tomfoolery which the scatterbrain heads of Marrast and Tocqueville invented for the torment and perplexity of the French nation ".

He was the great-grandfather of Alexis de Tocqueville.

The aristocracy, Tocqueville believed, was gradually disappearing as the modern world experienced the beneficial effects of equality.

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

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

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

Finally, on 2 February 1860, he was elected to the Académie Française, filling the seat of Alexis de Tocqueville, whose eulogy he had delivered.

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.

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.

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

His most notable work, the 1958 photobook titled The Americans, was influential, and earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and skeptical outsider's view of American society.

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.

Tocqueville considered the separate spheres of women and men a positive development, stating: " As for myself, I do not hesitate to avow that although the women of the United States are confined within the narrow circle of domestic life, and their situation is in some respects one of extreme dependence, I have nowhere seen women occupying a loftier position ; and if I were asked, (...) to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply ,— to the superiority of their women.

Sparks was one of the American intellectuals who received Alexis de Tocqueville during his 1831 – 32 visit to the United States.

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

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.

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

This observation can be traced to Alexis de Tocqueville, the first writer to describe the United States as " exceptional " in 1831 and 1840.

The French writer Alexis de Tocqueville first wrote about it in his 1831 work, 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.

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.

French historians of the first half of the 19th century like the politician and man of letters François Guizot ( 1787 – 1874 ), historian François Mignet ( published Histoire de la Révolution française in 1824 ), and famous philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville ( L ’ Ancien Régime et la Révolution, 1856 ) established and wrote in this tradition.

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.

The work was not successful at first, but its reputation grew over the years until, after his death, Alexis de Tocqueville named him as America's best native historian.

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.

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.

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

During the same period, Caragiale had the initiative to publish short fragments he had translated from classical pieces, leaving readers to guess who their authors were — Vianu, citing the speculations made by other critics, presumed that these were writers admired by both Caragiale and his friend, the schoolteacher Anghel Demetrescu ( Thomas Carlyle, Alexis de Tocqueville, Thomas Babington Macaulay, François Guizot and Augustin Thierry ).

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.

Like Alexis de Tocqueville, Santayana observed American culture and character from a foreigner's point of view.

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.

While Tocqueville speaks highly of the America's Constitution, he believes that the mores, or " habits of mind " of the American people play a more prominent role in the protection of freedom.

Noting the rise of the industrial sector in the American economy, Tocqueville, some scholars have argued, also correctly predicted that an industrial aristocracy would rise from the ownership of labor.

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

* American Journey: Traveling with Tocqueville in Search of Democracy in America, Simon & Schuster, 1982, ISBN 0-671-24746-8, ISBN 978-0-671-24746-1

The Alexis de Tocqueville Institution ( abbreviated AdTI ) is a Washington, D. C .– based American conservative think tank that produced reports and policy research.

Kenneth P. Brown, Jr. is an American lobbyist and author, and the former president of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution ( AdTI ), a think tank based in Arlington, Virginia.

“ Beyond Tocqueville, Myrdal and Hartz: The Multiple Traditions in America .” American Political Science Review 1993.

He was also a confident to Alexis de Tocqueville on the customs of the American people.

In addition to the usual canon of Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Machiavelli and Rousseau, Wolin wrote penetrating essays on Augustine of Hippo, Richard Hooker, David Hume, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Max Weber, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, and John Dewey as well as books on the American Constitution and Alexis de Tocqueville.

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.