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Economic growth usually fosters democratisation.

Elsewhere in the world, economic growth has strengthened the middle class and organised labour, who then organise for democratisation.

We can expect this to happen in China.

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Chinese rulers did not solicit council governance because they could already predict yields – due to geography, as well as advanced agricultural and bureaucratic technologies.

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Strong patrilineal kinship has strengthened cooperation within the extended family.

And Chinese bureaucrats used these networks to attract inward investment (Ang, 2016; Qian, 2016).

But inter-family trust and social cooperation is lower than in Europe.

This has curbed organising for democratic accountability.