Prix Alexis de Tocqueville
The Prix Alexis de Tocqueville is a prize for political literature. It is awarded about every two years by the Association Alexis de Tocqueville to a person who has shown outstanding humanistic commitment and commitment to freedom rights and this in continuation of the ideas of Alexis de Tocqueville . The prize was launched in 1979 on the initiative of Pierre Godefroy with the support of Alain Peyrefitte .
The jury is currently (2013) led by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing . The prize is awarded at the headquarters and castle of Tocqueville. The society is headed by Countess Stéphanie de Tocqueville d'Hérouville.
Award winners
- 1979: Raymond Aron
- 1980: David Riesman
- 1982: Alexander Alexandrowitsch Zinoviev
- 1984: Karl Popper
- 1987: Louis Dumont
- 1989: Octavio Paz
- 1991: François Furet
- 1994: Leszek Kołakowski
- 1997: Michel Crozier
- 1999: Daniel Bell
- 2003: Pierre Hassner
- 2006: Colin Powell
- 2008: Raymond Boudon
- 2010: Zbigniew Brzeziński
- 2014: Philippe Raynaud