In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.
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If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes.Peter L. Berger
Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.
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So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.
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We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.
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Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.
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If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe.
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