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Political science

the argument that economic development, with education and a large middle class, makes democracy more likely to emerge and endure.

In political science, modernization theory refers to the argument that economic development, with education and a large middle class, makes democracy more likely to emerge and endure. This meaning comes from Lipset (1959) in American Political Science Review.[1]

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Lipset, S. M. (1959). Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy. American Political Science Review, 53(1), 69-105. https://doi.org/10.2307/1951731

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