Mission




Founded in 2011, the Alexis de Tocqueville Project was established to promote scholarship and discourse in moral and political thought.

Among the issues the Tocqueville Project aims to examine are:
  • the values of democratic society and their justification 
  • the moral basis of civil liberties and private property
  • the role of religion in a free society
  • an individual’s obligations to others and to the state
  • the relationship between democracy, freedom, and equality
  • the relationship between law, liberty, and morality
  • the role of the state in making individuals virtuous

In support of this mission, the project sponsors public lectures, scholarly colloquia, and discussion groups; produces, directs, and facilitates academic scholarship; and provides research, advising, and financial support to students with an expressed interest in examining these issues.