Description: Autocratic Middle Class : How State Dependency Reduces the Demand for Democracy, Hardcover by Rosenfeld, Bryn, ISBN 0691192197, ISBN-13 9780691192192, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
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, where the middle class has grown rapidly, authoritarianism is deepening. Challenging a basic tenet of democratization theory, Bryn Rosenfeld shows how the middle classes can actually be a source of support for autocracy and authoritarian resilience, and reveals why development and economic growth do not necessarily lead to greater democracy.
In pursuit of development, authoritarian states often employ large swaths of the middle class in state administration, the government budget sector, and state enterprises. Drawing on attitudinal surveys, unique data on protest behavior, and extensive fieldwork in the post-Soviet region, Rosenfeld documents how the failure of the middle class to gain economic autonomy from the state stymies support for political change, and how state economic engagement reduces middle-class demands for democracy and weakens prodemocratic coalitions.
The Autocratic Middle Class makes a vital contribution to the study of democratization, showing how dependence on the state weakens the incentives of key societal actors to prefer and pursue democracy.
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Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Name: Autocratic Middle Class : How State Dependency Reduces the Demand for Democracy
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism, World / European, Comparative Politics, Political Ideologies / Democracy
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 22 Oz
Author: Bryn Rosenfeld
Subject Area: Political Science
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.5 in
Series: Princeton Studies in Political Behavior Ser.
Format: Hardcover
