Exploring the Social and Political Economy of Alexis de Tocqueville (Mercatus Studies in Political and Social Economy)

Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
	The Tocqueville Gap
	Tocqueville in the Mainline
	What Lies Ahead
	References
Chapter 2: Tocqueville’s “New Political Science” as a Correction of The Federalist
	Introduction
	Tocqueville’s Diminution of the Founder’s Founding
	Social State: The “First Cause” of Political Development
	Majority Tyranny and the Insufficiency of Madisonianism
	The French Connection
	Tyranny of the Majority as Soft Despotism: The Problem of “Individualism”
	An Appraisal of Tocqueville’s Critique
	References
Chapter 3: “The Monetary Link”: Tocqueville on the Second Bank of the United States and Liberal Political Economy
	The Second Bank of the United States
	The Second Bank and Centralization
	Governmental and Administrative Centralization
	Tocqueville’s Political Economy
	Conclusion: Political and Economic Liberty
	References
Chapter 4: Tocqueville on the Mixed Blessing of Liberal Learning: Higher Education as Subversive Antidote
	Introduction: The Danger of Flat Souls
	Open and Lonely Minds
	The Return of Repressed Aristocracy
	Elite Greatness and Resistance
	Enlightenment of the Elites?
	Afterlives of This Argument: The Great Books and Elite Formation
	References
Chapter 5: Tocqueville’s Philosophy of History: Its Meaning and Implications for Russia and Central and Eastern Europe
	Introduction
	Tocqueville’s Philosophy of History
	Tocqueville and Russia and Central and Eastern Europe
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 6: A Tocquevillian Marketplace of Ideas? Spiritualism and Materialism in Tocqueville’s Liberalism
	Introduction
	The Scholarly Landscape
	Tocqueville’s “Sacred Liberty”
	Democracy in America Volume II and the Intellectual Movement of Democratic Man
	Liberty, Ideas, and the Marketplace in Plato and Tocqueville
	Setting Salutary Limits in Rousseau’s Republic Versus Tocqueville’s America
	The Dangers of Materialism in the Arts and Disciplines
	The Special Duties of the Public Moralist
	Conclusions and Implications: The Democratic Social State and Its Physicians
	References
Chapter 7: Democracy in the Age of Mass Incarceration
	Introduction
	The Role of Association in Democracy
	Prisons Shape Associations
	Associational Life After Incarceration
		Mass Incarceration Reduces Participation in Civil Association by Former Prisoners
			Mass Incarceration Reduces Participation in Family Life by Former Prisoners
			Mass Incarceration Reduces Participation in Religious Associations by Former Prisoners
			Mass Incarceration Reduces Participation in Industry by Former Prisoners
		Mass Incarceration Reduces Participation in Political Associations by Former Prisoners
		Mass Incarceration Reduces Participation in Voting by Former Prisoners
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 8: Tocquevillian Education for Self-Governance
	Tocqueville’s Challenge for Pedagogy
	Tocqueville’s New Political Science and the Ostroms’s Science and Art of Association
	A Contrast in Learning Environments: Passive Isolation Versus Active Association
	The Hidden Curriculum of Mass Bureaucratic Schooling
	Models of Self-Government Within the School
	Pedagogy as Part of a Tocquevillian Political Economy
	References
Chapter 9: Alexis de Tocqueville’s Citizenship: A Model of Collective Virtue
	Introduction
	What Is Citizenship?
	Collective Virtue: Dispositional and Dynamic
		Self-Interest and Citizenship
		Making Virtue Work: Institutions, Culture, and Principles
			Egalitarianism
			Identification
			Republicanism
			Egalitarianism, Identity, Republicanism, and Citizenship
		Tocqueville, Vernon Smith, and Modern Economics
		Virtue Ethics
		Collective Virtue Ethics
		Tocquevillian Account of Group Virtue and Vice
		Citizenship Today
		Objections: Against National Impartiality
			Localized Citizenship
			Worries About National Favoritism
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 10: Open-Sourcing Civil Society
	Introduction
	Tocqueville’s Warning and the High-Tech Recovery of Mutual Aid Societies
	Creative Destruction and the Possibility That Technology Has Socially Damaging Unintended Consequences
	Comparing the Context-Dependent Usefulness of Social Norms, Private Contracts, and Laws
	The Strengths and Limits of Open Source
	Lessons from Open Source for Building More Efficient Civil Society Organizations
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 11: Collective Individualism and Revolution: Reading Tocqueville in Beijing
	Social Democracy in China
	Collective Individualism
	References
Chapter 12: Deconstructing American Exceptionalism
	The Meanings of Deconstruction and a Deconstructionist Approach
	Deconstructing American Exceptionalism
	A Contemporary Example of Exceptionalism’s Deconstructability
	Conclusion
	References
Index