Enlisting a natural experiment, global surveys, and historical
data, this book examines the university's evolution and its
contemporary impact. Its authors conduct an unprecedented big-data
comparative study of the consequences of higher education on
ideology, democratic citizenship, and more. They conclude that
university education has a profound effect on social and political
attitudes across the world, greater than that registered by social
class, gender, or age. A university education enhances political
trust and participation, reduces propensities to crime and
corruption, and builds support for democracy. It generates more
tolerant attitudes toward social deviance, enhances respect for
rationalist inquiry and scientific authority, and usually
encourages support for Leftist parties and movements. It does not
nurture support for taxation, redistribution, or the welfare state,
and may stimulate opposition to these policies. These effects are
summarized by the co-authors as liberal, understood in its classic,
nineteenth-century meaning.
General
Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Cambridge Studies in the Comparative Politics of Education |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
Brendan Apfeld
• Emanuel Coman
• John Gerring
• Stephen Jessee
|
Pages: |
300 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-00-942473-8 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-00-942473-4 |
Barcode: |
9781009424738 |
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