e and enjoy it." City mayors regularly get twice the approval ratings of national politicians. Modern technology can implement a modern version of Tocqueville's town-hall meetings to promote civic involvement and innovation. An online hyperdemocracy where everything is put to an endless series of public v

blished democracies from above, through globalisation, and below, through the rise of micro- powers, can reinforce rather than undermine democracy. Tocqueville argued that local democracy frequently represented democracy at its best: "Town-meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they b

of Tsarist Russia it took a lost war (1904/5) and three years of heavy losses (close to two million killed) in another to bring about a revolution. Tocqueville observed that a dictatorial regime faces the greatest danger when it is trying to reform itself. WHY, THEN, WERE Mubarak and Ali ousted so easily

ows up. On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 =t 11:48 AM, David Gelernter < <mailto: > wrote: Small get-together at the museum, 6PM; d=nner at some place called "Tocqueville" after. Of course I Hd be happy to meet you there earlier if that's better. The information contain=d in this communication is confidential, may be

esents an inside account of legal events that have altered history and that continue to have a major impact on the lives of millions of people. What Tocqueville observed two centuries ago—that in our country nearly every great issue finds its way into the courts—is even truer today than it was then. According