Screen LibraryA liberal education : the social and political impact of the modern university /
"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...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2024. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The comparative politics of education
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| Summary: |
"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"--Publisher's website. |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 341 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-331) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781009424738 1009424734 9781009424776 1009424777 |
| Index Number: | LC1011 |
| CLC: | G40-012 |
| Call Number: | G40-012/A641 |