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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    February 2024
    January 2024
    ISBN:
    9781009424783
    9781009424776
    9781009424738
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009424783
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.642kg, 358 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.569kg, 358 Pages
    • Series:
    Cambridge Studies in the Comparative Politics of Education
    Subjects:
    Education policy, strategy and reform, Education, Politics and International Relations, Education, History, Theory, Comparative Politics
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in the Comparative Politics of Education
    Subjects:
    Education policy, strategy and reform, Education, Politics and International Relations, Education, History, Theory, Comparative Politics
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    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.

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