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Saturday, November 21, 2009
 
 
Session I: Tocqueville on China
 

Session I: Agenda
Session I: Recommended Readings

On December 15, 2006, AEI convened the first "Tocqueville on China" working group. The purpose of this initial meeting was to develop a research agenda and determine how the project might proceed. What follows are short summaries of the presentations made at the initital workshop and an overview of the subsequent questions and commentary.

Session I: Tocqueville on China

  1. What can we learn from Tocqueville about how to study a society?
  2. Is China's experiment in village governance a School of Liberty?
  3. Windows into China's Civic Culture
  4. Tocqueville's Ancien Regime: A Revolution Gone Bad
  5. What's Next
 
 
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