Capitalism without Democracy
by Kellee Tsai
Kellee Tsai’s book looks at the curious fact that while an affluent class of private entrepreneurs and business people has arisen in China as a result of economic reform, the new Chinese bourgeoisie has displayed no real interest in Western-style democracy. And this in turn appears to violate one of the most sacred canons of the classical theory of modernisation – that the emergence of an affluent, self-confident urban commercial and industrial bourgeoisie comprises a potent force for democratisation.
