Rediscovering Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America”

ABSTRACT

This conference brought together business professionals to explore some of the key themes in Tocqueville's work, including the essential institutional and noninstitutional features of American democracy, the effects of equality on democratic peoples, and the dangers to a free democracy.

READING LIST

Conference Readings

Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 2004.