LEADER 03483nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910465858903321 005 20210423234411.0 010 $a1-299-28412-4 010 $a0-300-18896-X 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300188967 035 $a(CKB)2560000000099618 035 $a(OCoLC)841170837 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10670438 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001000027 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12470999 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001000027 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10942932 035 $a(PQKB)10399153 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421153 035 $a(DE-B1597)486038 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300188967 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421153 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10670438 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL459662 035 $a(OCoLC)923602422 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000099618 100 $a20121210d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDemocracy in retreat$b[electronic resource] $ethe revolt of the middle class and the worldwide decline of representative government /$fJoshua Kurlantzick 210 $aNew Haven, CT ;$aLondon $cYale University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (302 p.) 300 $a"A council on foreign relations book". 311 0 $a0-300-17538-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Democracy Goes into Reverse --$t2. How We Got Here --$t3. The Fourth Wave --$t4. It's the Economy, Stupid: The Consensus Fails --$t5. The Middle Class Revolts --$t6. Graft, Graft, and More Graft --$t7. The China Model --$t8. The Autocrats Strike Back --$t9. Failure of the Emerging Powers --$t10. Failure of the West --$t11. Prescriptions for the Future --$tAppendix: Egypt --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aSince the end of the Cold War, the assumption among most political theorists has been that as nations develop economically, they will also become more democratic-especially if a vibrant middle class takes root. This assumption underlies the expansion of the European Union and much of American foreign policy, bolstered by such examples as South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, and even to some extent Russia. Where democratization has failed or retreated, aberrant conditions take the blame: Islamism, authoritarian Chinese influence, or perhaps the rise of local autocrats. But what if the failures of democracy are not exceptions? In this thought-provoking study of democratization, Joshua Kurlantzick proposes that the spate of retreating democracies, one after another over the past two decades, is not just a series of exceptions. Instead, it reflects a new and disturbing trend: democracy in worldwide decline. The author investigates the state of democracy in a variety of countries, why the middle class has turned against democracy in some cases, and whether the decline in global democratization is reversible. 606 $aDemocracy$vCase studies 606 $aDemocratization$vCase studies 606 $aWorld politics$y1989- 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDemocracy 615 0$aDemocratization 615 0$aWorld politics 676 $a321.8 700 $aKurlantzick$b Joshua$f1976-$0961112 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465858903321 996 $aDemocracy in retreat$92442959 997 $aUNINA