How Tocqueville’s ideas can help us build resilient liberal democracies in a divided world How can today’s liberal democracies withstand the illiberal wave

How Tocqueville's ideas can help us build resilient liberal democracies in a divided world How can today's liberal democracies withstand the illiberal wave swee

This volume reinvigorates the study of popular sovereignty in theory and practice, illuminating the meaning and future of liberal democracy.

Following the approach developed by Alexis de Tocqueville, this volume views democracy as a cultural phenomenon. It starts from the assumption that if we are to

Liberal democracies are under constant threat in the twenty-first century, and there is growing scepticism about whether liberalism and democracy can continue t