All of the following are reasons that would account for the spread of democracy except: Select one: a. the economic advances of the past quarter century leading to the emergence of increasingly prosperous middle and working classes pushing for democratic reforms. b. new information and communication technologies reducing the state's ability to control access to uncensored information. c. totalitarian regimes failing to deliver economic progress to the vast bulk of their populations. d. the unchallenged pressure of entrepreneurs and other business leaders for less accountable and closed governments