One of the most celebrated-in-America works on our national character and form of government is precisely one of these cases of a foreigner providing an outside

One of the most celebrated-in-America works on our national character and form of government is precisely one of these cases of a foreigner providing an outsider’s perspective—and one sent by his government to investigate the US, even! Alexis de Tocqueville‘s Democracy in America The entire field of comparative politics tends to be a lot of this sort of thing, naturally, and is typically credited as beginning in Aristotle’s Politics, which is mostly a work of comparative politics, specifically.