If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state

In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility.

If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.