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

296 pages • paperback • 2020

2 editions

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How middle-class economic dependence on the state impedes democratization and contributes to authoritarian resilience Conventional wisdom holds that the rising middle classes are a force for democracy. Yet in post-Soviet countries like Russia, whe...

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