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The Autocratic Middle Class: How State Dependency Reduces the Demand for Democracy by Bryn Rosenfeld

Princeton Studies in Political Behavior #11

The Autocratic Middle Class: How State Dependency Reduces the Demand for Democracy

Bryn Rosenfeld

286 pages hardcover 2020

2 editions

nonfiction politics informative reflective medium-paced
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Conventional wisdom holds that the rising middle classes are a force for democracy. Yet in post-Soviet countries like Russia, where the middle class has grown rapidly, authoritarianism is deepening. Challenging a basic tenet of democratization the...

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