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Alexis de Tocqueville

Seymour Drescher · Encyclopaedia Britannica · 2026

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EstablishedAfter nine months in the United States in 1831–32, Tocqueville published Democracy in America (1835–40), arguing that liberty can survive in a democratic social order if properly organised, and warning that mild, stagnant despotism was democracy's greatest threat.