Education and Tolerance: A Comparative Quantitative Analysis of the Educational Effect on Tolerance

ISBN-13: 9783631718643 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 288 str.

Lenka Drazanova

Opis

This book presents empirical comparative research findings regarding the educational effect on political and social tolerance across 24 and 33 countries at two time points. It argues there are several micro- and macro-level conditions that should be fulfilled for the positive effect of education to take place.

Spis treści

Education - Tolerance - Educational effect - Political tolerance - Social tolerance - Multilevel modelling - Personality predispositions - Socio-economic conditions - Democratic longevity - Ethnic heterogeneity - Religious heterogeneity - Economic development - Proportions of higher educated individuals

O autorze

Lenka Drazanová is a postdoctoral researcher in political attitudes formation, sociology of education and quantitative methodology at the Humboldt University in Berlin, where she also obtained her PhD. She pursued her M.A. at the Central European University in Budapest and was a doctoral visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.