Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Problems of the Democratic State 1
5. 1. Inequality: Alexis de Tocqueville and the Democratic Foundations of a Modern Administrative Power 22
6. 2. Equality: Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol and the Democratization of Government 52
7. 3. Emergency: Edouard Laboulaye’s Constitutionalism 76
8. 4. Necessity: Adolphe Thiers’s Liberal Democratic Executive 99
9. 5. Exclusion: Jenny d’Héricourt on the Edges of the Political 133
10. 6. Terror: Louis Blanc’s Historical Theory of Circumstances 159
11. Conclusion: Democratic Ends of State 185
12. Notes 193
13. Index 231