TY - GEN
AU - Österman, Marcus
AU - Robinson, Darrel
TI - Educating Democrats or Autocrats? The Regime-Conditional Effect of Education on Support for Democracy
KW - EVS
KW - Demokratie
KW - Diktatur
KW - Bildung
KW - Zufriedenheit
KW - Schulpflicht
KW - Reform
KW - politische Einstellung
KW - politische Bildung
KW - Lehrplan
KW - support for democracy
KW - democratic attitudes
KW - satisfaction with democracy
KW - compulsory education reforms
KW - EVS 1999
KW - EVS 2008
PY - 2022
N2 - Veröffentlichungsversion
N2 - begutachtet (peer reviewed)
N2 - In: Political Studies (2022) OnlineFirst ; 1-23
N2 - Political science has long viewed education as an instrumental factor in developing support for democracy and beneficial for democratization. However, governments, both democratic and authoritarian, have substantial control over the curriculum and develop education institutions with the specific aim to instill in students the norms and values that underpin the regime. With this in mind, this study asks, does the effect of education vary by the political regime in which education was undertaken? We use a quasi-experimental approach exploiting European compulsory schooling reforms, implemented under both democratic and authoritarian regimes, to answer this question. We find that education has no effect on principle and functional support for democracy, but that education’s effect on satisfaction with democracy is conditional on regime type. For those educated under a democratic regime, education led to greater satisfaction with democracy, whereas those educated under an authoritarian regime became less satisfied with democracy.
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