The Autocratic Middle Class : : How State Dependency Reduces the Demand for Democracy / / Bryn Rosenfeld.
How middle class economic dependence on the state impedes democratization and contributes to authoritarian resilienceConventional 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, authoritarianis...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Political Behavior ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 22 b/w illus. 28 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The AutocraticMiddle Class
- 2. State Dependency andMiddle-Class Demand for Democracy
- 3. The Post-CommunistMiddle Classes, the State, and Democratization
- 4. Rethinking theMiddle-Class Protest Paradigm
- 5. Choosing toWork for the State
- 6. Revolution, Democratic Retrenchment, and theMiddle Class
- 7. Aligning theMiddle Class with Autocracy: Rhetoric and Practice
- 8. Conclusion
- Appendix I: Regression Results
- Bibliography
- Index