Democracy

=Tocqueville vs. Mill= - Tocqueville presents democratization as an unstoppable process that will eventually replace oligarchy. - Mill views representative government as progress. The "better" or more advanced a civilization becomes the closer they get to representative governments. Therefore, democracy no only has pre-requisites but it is inherently good.

- Tocqueville argues that democracy is a way to view and use power. - Mill thinks of democracy as a bureaucracy of representative institutions.

- Tocqueville's problems: Tyranny of the majority (demos) Super-centralization

- Mill's problems: Class legislation (aka tyranny of the majority, but majority meaning any one class, not just the poor) Lack of Intelligence