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The Tyranny of the Majority: History, Concepts, and Challenges. New York: Routledge. Volk, Kyle G. (2014). Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press. Curriculum on Alexis de Tocqueville on Tyranny of the Majority from EDSITEment from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville [a] (29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859), [7] was a French aristocrat, diplomat, sociologist, political scientist, political philosopher, and historian. He is best known for his works Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes, 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856).
Soft tyranny is an idea first developed by Alexis de Tocqueville in his 1835 work titled Democracy in America. [1] It is described as the individualist preference for equality and its pleasures, requiring the state – as a tyrant majority or a benevolent authority – to step in and adjudicate. [2]
Known as one of the most prescient observers of American democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville was also keenly interested in the country’s potential devolution into tyranny. In his magnum opus ...
Alexis de Tocqueville: Tyranny of the Majority EDSITEment from the National Endowment for the Humanities; Yale Tocqueville Manuscripts. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. See Ronald T. Libby, "The Death of Democracy in America: Inventing Political Crimes. Twelve Tables Publishers, 2024.
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Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people.
Alexis de Tocqueville first described the phenomenon in his book Democracy in America (1840): The hatred that men bear to privilege increases in proportion as privileges become fewer and less considerable, so that democratic passions would seem to burn most fiercely just when they have least fuel. I have already given the reason for this ...