Session One: Agenda
      Session One: 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.

 I. What can we learn from Tocqueville about how to study a society?
II. Is China's experiment in village governance a School of Liberty?
III. Windows into China's Civic Culture
IV. Tocqueville's Ancien Regime: A Revolution Gone Bad
V. What's Next