Democracy: A Very Short Introduction by Crick, Bernard (2003) [Paperback] by Bernard Crick

Author:Bernard Crick [Crick, Bernard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B011TM5J8K
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1801-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

7. The title page of the first English edition of Tocqueville’s masterpiece.

From these provincial sources (not everything happens in Paris, London, Berlin, or Washington, even) he was able to formulate theories of lasting importance: that the actual revolution only speeded up a process of centralization long underway; that the time of maximum danger to an old order is when it tries to reform itself; and that the revolution occurred at a time of economic improvement not at a time of peculiarly great hardship. He summed up the last two propositions by saying that men suffer hopelessly under despotism and poverty; they only stir when there are grounds for hope and signs of improvement.

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