Since the late 1980s, there has been a spread of democracy. This is because
A) a state's ability to control access to uncensored information has increased.
B) the socialist model failed to deliver economic progress to the vast bulk of their populations.
C) in many countries the middle and working classes have become less powerful.
D) in many countries state-ownership of firms has encouraged innovation and entrepreneurship.

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Many totalitarian regimes failed to deliver economic progress to the vast bulk of their populations. In looking for alternatives to the socialist model, the populations of these countries could not have failed to notice that most of the world's strongest economies were governed by representative democracies.

Since the Late 1980s, There Has Been a Spread of Democracy