Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World (1966) is a book by Barrington Moore Jr.
In Japan and China, the bourgeoisie was weak, and allied with the elites or peasants to create fascism or communism, respectively.
Theda Skocpol and Margaret Somers described Moore's book as a "work of virtually unparalleled ambition" in terms of substantive scope and complexity of its research design.
[12] Samuel Valenzuela argues that, counter to Moore's view, the landed elite supported democratization in Chile.
[13] A comprehensive assessment conducted by James Mahoney concludes that "Moore's specific hypotheses about democracy and authoritarianism receive only limited and highly conditional support.