The Impact of Middle Class Economic Strength on Civil Liberties Performance and Domestic and External Peace
Description:
Using data for 93 countries from 1972 through 2001 in cross-national analysis, this study compares the relative economic strength of a country's middle-class with its civil liberties performance and its history of domestic and external conflict. For purposes of this analysis, the relative strength of a country's middle-class is determined by multiplying the square root of a country's gross domestic product per capita by the percentage of income distributed to the middle 60 % of the population (…
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Date:
December 2003
Creator:
Stedman, Joseph B.
Partner:
UNT Libraries