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Subsequent references to Democracy will be to this edition, with occasional revisions of translation, and included in parentheses in the text.

As the new millennium dawned, ît seemed fitting to many of us that editors of two provocative collections of essays chose to usher in the new era by featuring Alexis de Tocqueville. In America, the Journal of Democrmy commissioned papers from twenty-four scholars and practitioners of democracy to assess Tocqueville and his abiding import for the development of "Democracy in the World," using the occasion to conclude: "We are all Tocquevilleans now." In France, a new journal, Raisons politiques, spotlighted in its inaugural edition in 2001 what it termed "Un moment tocquevillien" that had allowed France to reconceptualize its unique liberal tradition.2 In both cases the editors connected Tocqueville's powerful presence and prescience to modern political concerns. In neither case did the journal's emphasis on a political Tocqueville make any referencc to Tocqueville as politician.

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