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The cases of: India, China, Venezuela, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Spain are discussed and analyzed, in terms of: the emergence of advanced capitalism, the new middle class, democratic or despotic cultural traditions, and specific historical peculiarities. The case of Spain is presented as a model for hope, where a few short years ago Spain seemed hopelessly anti-democratic.
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Glassman, R.M. (2019). Case Studies of Socio-Political Change in Some of the Developing Nations. In: The Future of Democracy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16111-8_11
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