Formal education is crucial for creating enlightened and active citizens. The better educated are more engaged, more knowledgeable, and more politically tolerant. Despite a dramatic increase in education attainment over the last quarter century, political engagement has not risen at a commensurate level. How and why education affects citizenship in these ways has until now been a puzzle. Norman H. Nie, Jane Junn, and Kenneth Stehlik-Barry provide answers by uncovering the causal relationship between education and democratic citizenship. They argue that citizenship encompasses both...
Formal education is crucial for creating enlightened and active citizens. The better educated are more engaged, more knowledgeable, and more political...
In this survey of political participation in seven nations Nigeria, Austria, Japan, India, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, and the United States the authors examine the relationship between social, economic, and educational factors and political participation."
In this survey of political participation in seven nations Nigeria, Austria, Japan, India, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, and the United States the auth...
This book provides insight into an ongoing debate among political scientists and sociologist: why is political participation in some nations distributed evenly across economic, social, and educational lines, whereas other nations foster participation only by their privileged classes?
This book provides insight into an ongoing debate among political scientists and sociologist: why is political participation in some nations distribut...
