Economic Change and Public Support for Democracy in China and RussiaFootnote

An earlier version of the essay was presented at the ECPR meetings, University of Glasgow, 3–6 September 2014, in the panel ‘Rising Powers: Social Inequality and Political Stability’. Our thanks to workshop participants and a special thanks to two anonymous reviewers from this journal for their very constructive and helpful comments on an earlier version of the essay.

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