Africa: Poor people and democratic citizenship

Afrobarometer (a series of comparative national surveys) has recently produced a paper outlining the relationship of poor people to democratic citizenship. A democratic political regime has long been regarded as an attribute of high-income, industrialized economies. If it turns out that democratic stability in the medium to long-term depends on the economic wellbeing of citizens, then democracies can be expected to be especially fragile in world regions where many people live in poverty. This research has some intriguing results based on the following questions: 1) Are poor people any more or less attached to democracy than rich people? And 2) Are they any more or less likely to act as democratic citizens?