Alexis De Tocqueville and the Art of

In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville famously called for a new political science that could address the prob-lems and possibilities of a world itself quite new. For Tocqueville, the democratic world needed not just a new political science, but also new arts of statesmanship and leadership. In this volume, editors Brian Danoff and L. Joseph Hebert, Jr. have brought together a diverse set of essays which reveal that Tocqueville's understanding of democratic statesmanship remains highly relevant today.

Brian Danoff is assistant professor of political science at Miami University. L. Joseph Hebert, Jr., is associate professor and chair of political science at St. Ambrose University.

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Statesmanship and Political Philosophy
Speech Given to the Annual Public Meeting of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences on April 3, 1852	p. 17
Leading by Leaving	p. 31
Aristotle and Tocqueville on Statesmanship	p. 49
Machiavelli and Tocqueville on Majority Tyranny	p. 73
Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and the Politics of Mores	p. 93
Intellectuals and Statesmanship? Tocqueville, Oakeshott, and the Distinction between Theoretical and Practical Knowledge	p. 117
Statesmanship and Government
Tocqueville's View of the American Presidency and the Limits of Democratic Statesmanship	p. 139
Changing the People, Not Simply the President: The Limitations and Possibilities of the Obama Presidency, in Tocquevillian Perspective	p. 155
Moderating the Penal State through Citizen Participation: A Neo-Tocquevillian Perspective on Court Professionals and Juries in a Democracy	p. 179
Statesmanship Outside of Government
From Associations to Organizations: Tocqueville, NGOs, and the Colonization of Civic Leadership	p. 205
The Tragedy of American Progress: Alexis de Tocqueville and Willa Cather's My Àntonia	p. 225
The Catholic Church in the Modern World: A Tocquevillian Analysis of Vatican II	p. 247
Tocqueville on How to Praise the Puritans Today	p. 279
Statesmanship Abroad
Tocqueville's Foreign Policy of Moderation and Democracy Expansion	p. 299
The Twofold Challenge for Democratic Culture in Our Time	p. 323
Index	p. 333
About the Contributors	p. 339
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