Autocratic Middle Class (eBook)

How State Dependency Reduces the Demand for Democracy

Bryn Rosenfeld (Autor)

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2020
296 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20977-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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, 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
• Zusatzinfo: 22 b/w illus. 28 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: activism • A Middle Class without Democracy • authoritarianism • autocracy • Bourgeoisie • Bureaucracy • bureaucrat • Bureaucrats • Calculation • Capitalism • Career • Case study • civic revolutions • Civil servants • civil service • class analysis • Clientelism • Commodity • communism • communist state • Confidence interval • Democracy • democracy support • democratic attitudes • democratic revolution • Democratization • developed country • Developmental state • distrust • Eastern Europe • Economic Autonomy and Democracy • economic concentration • Economic Development • Economic Growth • economic liberalism • Economic Restructuring • Economics • economy • Election • electoral fraud • Elite • Employment • Entrepreneurship • Eva Bellin • Former Soviet Union • Government • Household • Hybrid Regimes in Russia and Kyrgyzstan • Ideology • income • incumbent • indoctrination • Institution • International Studies • Jie Chen • Job Security • Kazakhstan • Kelly M. McMann • Layoff • Levada Center • liberal democracy • Logistic Regression • majority • majority rule • Market Economy • Mass Mobilization • middle class • Minority rights • Modernization Theory • national security • of education • Orange Revolution • Participation (decision making) • Patronage • Percentage point • Political Economy • Political Freedom • Political Party • Political Science • political spectrum • Politician • Politics • post-communist region • private sector • Privatization • Probability • Profession • Protest • public administration • Public sector • Regime • regime change • regime preferences • Rule of Law • salary • Selection bias • Social capital • Social Class • Social mobility • Social protection • Social Transformation • Stalled Democracy • State bank • state capitalism • State-led development • state-owned enterprise • State Ownership • State (polity) • statist economy • statistical significance • Subsidy • Types of democracy • Ukraine • Unemployment • Uzbekistan • Voting • wage • Wealth • welfare • white-collar professionals • Workforce • Working Class • World Bank
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20977-4 / 0691209774
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20977-7 / 9780691209777