Anmerkungen:
In: John R. Lott, Jr., "Public Schooling, Indoctrination, and Totalitarianism," Journal of Political Economy Vol. 107, No. S6 (December 1999), pp. S127-S157
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments December 1, 1998 erstellt
Beschreibung:
Governments use public education and public ownership of schools and the media to control the information that their citizens receive. More totalitarian governments as well as those with larger wealth transfers make greater investments in publicly controlled information. This finding is borne out from cross sectional time-series evidence across countries, and is confirmed when specifically examining the recent fall of communism. My results reject the standard public good's view linking education and democracy, and I find evidence that public educational expenditures vary in similar ways to government ownership of television stations