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The Puzzle of the Chinese Middle Class
- Journal of Democracy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 27, Number 2, April 2016
- pp. 5-19
- 10.1353/jod.2016.0027
- Article
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Seymour Martin Lipset argued that economic development would enlarge the middle class, and that the middle class would support democracy. To what extent will this general proposition prove true of China?