Reconsidering the Effects of Education on Political Participation

Kam, Cindy D.; Palmer, Carl L.

doi:10.1017/s0022381608080651

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“…The item "[you learned] on your own", was important to prevent Political Disillusion in Brazil and to predict Institutional Participation in Sweden. There is no consensus in literature if Education significantly contributes to engaging in political action (Berinsky & Lenz, 2011;Kam & Palmer, 2008;Mayer, 2011). However, there is the possibility that education in schools, universities and other loci has effect for some students to engage in political action, but not to others, then in this case no trend comes out from statistics.…”

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Participação Política no Brasil e na Suécia: o papel dos estereótipos e do contágio

Carneiro

Torres

Ekman

2016

Psic.: Teor. e Pesq.

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RESUMO -This study assessed the influence of Stereotypes about Parliamentarians and Behavioral Contagion on Political Participation, comparing two countries: Brazil and Sweden. Stereotypes were admitted to be useful to tell parliamentarians' groups apart and predict their behavior. Behavioral Contagion was investigated as a possible catalyst of political action. Online questionnaires were administered to 984 Brazilians (37.4% women) and 879 Swedes (46.5% women). Structural Equation Modeling assessed relationships among variables. Behavioral Contagion played a pivotal role on predicting political engagement. Stereotypes predicted participation where they challenged commonsense: Brazilians usually cannot tell the difference among politicians, then those Brazilians who could were more politically engaged; in Sweden, the factor "corruption" predicts noninstitutional types of Participation.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Participação Política no Brasil e na Suécia: o papel dos estereótipos e do contágio

Carneiro

Torres

Ekman

2016

Psic.: Teor. e Pesq.

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“…The possibility to get a draft exemption and associated behaviour may also impact political preferences and attitudes. College education, for example, may lead to more political participation (Dee, 2004;Milligan, Moretti, and Oreopoulos; Kam and Palmer, 2008;Milstein Sondheimer and Green, 2009), affect political attitudes by increasing personal income (Morten, Tyran, and Wenström, 2011;Marshall, 2014), and leaving the country may shape preferences or opinions. We do not aim to isolate each of these possible channels separately, but subsume all of them into one effect which we call the direct effect, i.e., the effect which does not go through military service.…”

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Direct and Indirect Effects Based on Difference-in-Differences With an Application to Political Preferences Following the Vietnam Draft Lottery

Deuchert

Huber

Schelker

2018

Journal of Business & Economic Statistics

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This paper proposes a difference-in-differences approach for disentangling a total treatment effect on some outcome into a direct impact as well as an indirect effect operating through a binary intermediate variable -or mediator -within strata defined upon how the mediator reacts to the treatment. We show under which assumptions the direct effects on the always and never takers, whose mediator is not affected by the treatment, as well as the direct and indirect effects on the compliers, whose mediator reacts to the treatment, are identified. We provide an empirical application based on the Vietnam draft lottery. The results suggest that a high draft risk due to the lottery leads to a relative increase in the support for the Republican Party and that this increase is mostly driven by those complying with the lottery outcome.

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“…Education, because it enhances political interest and civic skills, and income because of the monetary resources that it provides. and Kam and Palmer (2008), for example, argue that education allows citizens to acquire necessary civic skills to understand abstract political issues and communicate their concerns to government officials and politicians. Therefore, people with higher income and education may be more likely to use institutionalized channels, such as voting and formal forms, to participate in politics.…”

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How do Civic Associations Foster Political Participation? The Role of Scope and Intensity of Organizational Involvement

Zhang

2016

Nonprofit Policy Forum

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This paper investigates factors associated with individuals' decisions in engaging in various modes of political participation, including voting, formal and informal political activities. Two aspects of civic association involvement are highlighted: scope and intensity. Using data from the U.S. Citizenship, Involvement, and Democracy Survey in 2006, we find that one's memberships in civic associations only explain one's participation in formal political activities, but the intensity of involvement, measured by the number of activities one performs at one's most active voluntary association, is positively associated with both formal and informal participation modes. Neither the scope nor the intensity explains voting behavior. The study suggests ways to promote the development of civic associations and enhance democracy.

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Reconsidering the Effects of Education on Political Participation

Cited by 312 publications

References 59 publications

Participação Política no Brasil e na Suécia: o papel dos estereótipos e do contágio

Participação Política no Brasil e na Suécia: o papel dos estereótipos e do contágio

Direct and Indirect Effects Based on Difference-in-Differences With an Application to Political Preferences Following the Vietnam Draft Lottery

How do Civic Associations Foster Political Participation? The Role of Scope and Intensity of Organizational Involvement

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