The Autocratic Middle Class: How State Dependency Reduces the Demand for Democracy by Bryn Rosenfeld, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2020, x + 276 pp.

What about circumstances where it is not the state that controls the economy, but powerful private actors who have effectively seized the state for their own purposes? The so-called Third Wave of democratization started in southern Europe (Spain, Portugal, and Greece) and spread rapidly to Latin America and select countries in East Asia, most dramatically in the Philippines and Korea. [Extracted from the article]