In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, made a nine-month journey throughout America. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the life and institutions of the evolving nation. Tocqueville looked to the flourishing democratic system in America as a possible model for post-revolutionary France, believing that the egalitarian ideals it enshrined reflected ...
Do religious arguments have a public role in the post-9/11 world? Can we hold democracy together despite fractures over moral issues? Are there moral ...
In 1831, the then twenty-seven year old Alexis de Tocqueville, was sent with Gustave de Beaumont to America by the French Government to study and ...
In spite of the expanding role of public participation in environmental decisionmaking, there has been little systematic examination of whether it ...
Cultural Democracy explores the crisis of our national cultural vitality, as access to the arts becomes increasingly mediated by a handful of ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt is remembered as one of America's greatest presidents, a leader who guided us through depression and war. Yet for the period ...
This book presents a collection of contemporary discourses that reconsider the relationship of democracy as a political ideology and American ideal ...
Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan in October 2007, after eight years of exile, hopeful that she could be a catalyst for change. Upon a tumultuous ...
The South American nation of Colombia has seen more than forty years of unrest, conflict, and civil war. It is a country in which social violence and ...
How can democracy be improved in an age when people are profoundly disenchanted with government? Part of the answer lies in the design of public ...
