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Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) is the author of one of the greatest pieces of political sociology ever written. It is Democracy in America, appearing in two volumes in 1835 and 1840. It would be worth a close study even if it weren't directly about the 19th-century American experience.

Democracy (tempered by republican institutions) was rather new in the modern age, appearing in full flower in the United States. But it became rather apparent after the French Revolution that the age of mon...