I am convinced that the most advantageous situation and the best possible laws cannot maintain a constitution in spite of the manners of a country; whilst the latter may turn to some advantage the ...

When a government, or for that matter a corner grocery store, fires one employee for incompetence, that is good management. When that government fires thousands of employees, without cause across many ...

Alexis de Tocqueville was a 19th century French diplomat, political scientist, and historian who is best known for his two-volume work "Democracy in America" (published in 1835 and 1840), in which he ...

Alexis de Tocqueville came to America in 1831 to study its prisons, but ended up documenting nearly every facet of American life. With journalistic curiosity, the French aristocrat scrutinized America ...

Does Alexis de Tocqueville have anything to say to the current generation of Chinese leaders? In recent decades, the case study of political change of greatest interest to Chinese leaders has been the ...

For most Americans, a list of major influences on democracy in the United States would include names like Thomas Jefferson, Adam Smith, or maybe even Karl Marx. Academics occasionally put Alexis de ...

Tocqueville Asset Management has agreed to acquire Poplar Forest Capital, an advisory practice managing $1.3 billion based in Pasadena, Calif. Poplar Forest serves a mix of institutional and retail ...

Alexis de Tocqueville observes how the revolutionary socialists of 1848 failed in France because they alienated the people. In part one of this essay on Alexis de Tocqueville’s Recollections, I looked ...

More than 200 European writers toured the United States in the decades after the Napoleonic Wars, publishing mostly contemptuous accounts of the makeshift nation for the delight of their own ...