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Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions available now: ADVERTISING Winston Fletcher CAPITALISM James Fulcher AFRICAN HISTORY CATHOLICISM Gerald O’Collins John Parker and Richard Rathbone THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES CHAOS Leonard Smith AND ELECTIONS L. Sandy Maisel CHOICE THEORY Michael Allingham THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY CHRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson Charles O. Jones CHRISTIAN ETHICS D. Stephen Long ANARCHISM Colin Ward CHRISTIANITY Linda Woodhead ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw CITIZENSHIP Richard Bellamy ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY ANCIENT WARFARE Helen Morales Harry Sidebottom CLASSICS ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman Mary Beard and John Henderson THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE John Blair CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon ANTISEMITISM Steven Beller COMMUNISM Leslie Holmes THE APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS CONSCIOUSNESS Susan Blackmore Paul Foster CONTEMPORARY ART ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn Julian Stallabrass ARCHITECTURE Andrew Ballantyne CONTINENTAL ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes PHILOSOPHY Simon Critchley ART HISTORY Dana Arnold COSMOLOGY Peter Coles ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland THE CRUSADES Christopher Tyerman ATHEISM Julian Baggini CRYPTOGRAPHY Fred Piper and AUGUSTINE Henry Chadwick Sean Murphy AUTISM Uta Frith DADA AND SURREALISM BARTHES Jonathan Culler David Hopkins BESTSELLERS John Sutherland DARWIN Jonathan Howard THE BIBLE John Riches THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS BIBLICAL ARCHEOLOGY Eric H. Cline Timothy Lim BIOGRAPHY Hermione Lee DEMOCRACY Bernard Crick THE BOOK OF MORMON DESCARTES Tom Sorell Terryl Givens DESERTS Nick Middleton THE BRAIN Michael O’Shea DESIGN John Heskett BRITISH POLITICS Anthony Wright DINOSAURS David Norman BUDDHA Michael Carrithers DOCUMENTARY FILM BUDDHISM Damien Keown Patricia Aufderheide BUDDHIST ETHICS Damien Keown DREAMING J. Allan Hobson DRUGS Leslie Iversen GAME THEORY Ken Binmore DRUIDS Barry Cunliffe GANDHI Bhikhu Parekh THE EARTH Martin Redfern GEOGRAPHY ECONOMICS Partha Dasgupta John Matthews and David Herbert EGYPTIAN MYTH Geraldine Pinch GEOPOLITICS Klaus Dodds EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN GERMAN LITERATURE Paul Langford Nicholas Boyle THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball GERMAN PHILOSOPHY EMOTION Dylan Evans Andrew Bowie EMPIRE Stephen Howe GLOBAL CATASTROPHES ENGELS Terrell Carver Bill McGuire EPIDEMIOLOGY Roldolfo Saracci GLOBAL WARMING Mark Maslin ETHICS Simon Blackburn GLOBALIZATION Manfred Steger THE EUROPEAN UNION THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE John Pinder and Simon Usherwood NEW DEAL Eric Rauchway EVOLUTION HABERMAS James Gordon Finlayson Brian and Deborah Charlesworth HEGEL Peter Singer EXISTENTIALISM Thomas Flynn HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood FASCISM Kevin Passmore HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson FASHION Rebecca Arnold HINDUISM Kim Knott FEMINISM Margaret Walters HISTORY John H. Arnold FILM MUSIC Kathryn Kalinak THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY THE FIRST WORLD WAR Michael Hoskin Michael Howard THE HISTORY OF LIFE FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY Michael Benton David Canter THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE FORENSIC SCIENCE Jim Fraser William Bynum FOSSILS Keith Thomson THE HISTORY OF TIME FOUCAULT Gary Gutting Leofranc Holford-Strevens FREE SPEECH Nigel Warburton HIV/AIDS Alan Whiteside FREE WILL Thomas Pink HOBBES Richard Tuck FRENCH LITERATURE John D. Lyons HUMAN EVOLUTION THE FRENCH REVOLUTION Bernard Wood William Doyle HUMAN RIGHTS Andrew Clapham FREUD Anthony Storr HUME A. J. Ayer FUNDAMENTALISM IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden Malise Ruthven INDIAN PHILOSOPHY GALAXIES John Gribbin Sue Hamilton GALILEO Stillman Drake INFORMATION Luciano Floridi INNOVATION MEMORY Jonathan K. Foster Mark Dodgson and David Gann MODERN ART David Cottington INTELLIGENCE Ian J. Deary MODERN CHINA Rana Mitter INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION MODERN IRELAND Senia Pašeta Khalid Koser MODERN JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Christopher Goto-Jones Paul Wilkinson MODERNISM Christopher Butler ISLAM Malise Ruthven MOLECULES Philip Ball ISLAMIC HISTORY MORMONISM Adam Silverstein Richard Lyman Bushman JOURNALISM Ian Hargreaves MUSIC Nicholas Cook JUDAISM Norman Solomon MYTH Robert A. Segal JUNG Anthony Stevens NATIONALISM Steven Grosby KABBALAH Joseph Dan NELSON MANDELA KAFKA Ritchie Robertson Elleke Boehmer KANT Roger Scruton NEOLIBERALISM KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner Manfred Steger and Ravi Roy THE KORAN Michael Cook THE NEW TESTAMENT LAW Raymond Wacks Luke Timothy Johnson THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS THE NEW TESTAMENT AS Peter Atkins LITERATURE Kyle Keefer LEADERSHIP Keith Grint NEWTON Robert Iliffe LINCOLN Allen C. Guelzo NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN LITERARY THEORY Jonathan Culler Christopher Harvie and LOCKE John Dunn H. C. G. Matthew LOGIC Graham Priest THE NORMAN CONQUEST MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner George Garnett THE MARQUIS DE SADE NORTHERN IRELAND John Phillips Marc Mulholland MARX Peter Singer NOTHING Frank Close MATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers NUCLEAR WEAPONS THE MEANING OF LIFE Joseph M. Siracusa Terry Eagleton THE OLD TESTAMENT MEDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope Michael D. Coogan MEDIEVAL BRITAIN PARTICLE PHYSICS Frank Close John Gillingham and PAUL E. P. Sanders Ralph A. Griffiths PHILOSOPHY Edward Craig PHILOSOPHY OF LAW ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler Raymond Wacks RUSSELL A. C. Grayling PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE RUSSIAN LITERATURE Samir Okasha Catriona Kelly PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Edwards THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION PLATO Julia Annas S. A. Smith POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY SCHIZOPHRENIA David Miller Chris Frith and Eve Johnstone POLITICS Kenneth Minogue SCHOPENHAUER POSTCOLONIALISM Robert Young Christopher Janaway POSTMODERNISM SCIENCE AND RELIGION Christopher Butler Thomas Dixon POSTSTRUCTURALISM SCOTLAND Rab Houston Catherine Belsey SEXUALITY Véronique Mottier PREHISTORY Chris Gosden SHAKESPEARE Germaine Greer PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY SIKHISM Eleanor Nesbitt Catherine Osborne SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PRIVACY Raymond Wacks ANTHROPOLOGY PROGRESSIVISM Walter Nugent John Monaghan and Peter Just PSYCHIATRY Tom Burns SOCIALISM Michael Newman PSYCHOLOGY SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce Gillian Butler and Freda McManus SOCRATES C. C. W. Taylor PURITANISM Francis J. Bremer THE SOVIET UNION Stephen Lovell THE QUAKERS Pink Dandelion THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR QUANTUM THEORY Helen Graham John Polkinghorne SPINOZA Roger Scruton RACISM Ali Rattansi STATISTICS David J. Hand THE REAGAN REVOLUTION Gil Troy STUART BRITAIN John Morrill THE REFORMATION Peter Marshall SUPERCONDUCTIVITY RELATIVITY Russell Stannard Stephen Blundell RELIGION IN AMERICA TERRORISM Charles Townshend Timothy Beal THEOLOGY David F. Ford THE RENAISSANCE Jerry Brotton THOMAS AQUINAS Fergus Kerr RENAISSANCE ART TOCQUEVILLE Harvey C. Mansfield Geraldine A. Johnson TRAGEDY Adrian Poole ROMAN BRITAIN Peter Salway THE TUDORS John Guy THE ROMAN EMPIRE TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN Christopher Kelly Kenneth O. Morgan THE UNITED NATIONS WORLD MUSIC Philip Bohlman Jussi M. Hanhimäki THE WORLD TRADE THE VIKINGS Julian Richards ORGANIZATION Amrita Narlikar WITCHCRAFT Malcolm Gaskill WRITING AND SCRIPT WITTGENSTEIN A. C. Grayling Andrew Robinson Available soon: landscapes and north american indians geomorphology Theda Perdue and Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles Michael D. Green spanish literature Jo Labanyi the u.s. congress diplomacy Joesph M. Siracusa Donald A. Ritchie For more information visit our web site www.oup.co.uk/general/vsi/ Harvey C. Mansfield tocqueville A Very Short Introduction 1 1 Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offi ces in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright © 2010 by Harvey C. Mansfi eld Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mansfi eld, Harvey Clafl in, 1932– Tocqueville : a very short introduction / Harvey C. Mansfi eld. p. cm. ISBN 978-0-19-517539-4 (pbk.) 1. Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805–1859—Political and social views. 2. Historians—France—Biography. 3. Statesmen—France—Biography. 4. Democracy. I. Title. JC229.T8.M33 2010 320.092—dc22 [B] 2010010473 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in Great Britain by Ashford Colour Press Ltd., Gosport, Hants. on acid-free paper Acknowledgments This volume is sponsored by the Taskforce on the Virtues of a Free Society of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where I am the Carol G. Simon Senior Fellow. Support for it came also from a research fellowship at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation in Munich, Germany, held for the fi rst six months of 2009 at the invitation of my longtime friend Dr. Heinrich Meier. Nor must I forget the everyday generosity of Harvard University, where I have essentially spent my life. I am grateful to Kathryn Sensen for invaluable and unsparing criticism of the text served with all due respect. My late wife, Delba Winthrop, who would have been co-author of the book, was ever in my thoughts as I composed it.
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