Rejoinder: Reinvestigating the Causal Relationship between Higher Education and Political Participation

Kam, Cindy D.; Palmer, Carl L.

doi:10.1017/s0022381611000363

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“…He thus concludes that the lower levels of CPE in the vocational tracks are simply due to selection effect. These findings are similar to those of Kam and Palmer (2011), who develop a similar argument in regard to their findings of the non-effects of higher education on social outcomes. One of a number of possible explanations they give is that students can learn from their parents the feeling of being 'efficacious, competent, and self-assured' and that this can drive both education achievement and political engagement (65).…”

Section: Tracking Ivet and Cpesupporting

confidence: 87%

Inequalities in the education system and the reproduction of socioeconomic disparities in voting in England, Denmark and Germany: the influence of country context, tracking and self-efficacy on voting intentions of students age 16–18

Hoskins

Janmaat²,

Han³

et al. 2014

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This article performs exploratory research using a mixed-methods approach (structural equation modelling and a thematic analysis of interview data) to analyse the ways in which socioeconomic disparities in voting patterns are reproduced through inequalities in education in different national contexts, and the role of self-efficacy in this process. The evidence suggests that in Germany and England students with lower socioeconomic status (SES) have lower levels of general self-efficacy, and that this is reinforced through early experiences of inequalities in the education system, such as within-or between-school selection. Low levels of general self-efficacy are then found to reduce political self-efficacy and voting intentions. In Germany and England, it is these students who enter initial vocational education and training (IVET). The experience of IVET then reinforces the distinctions in civic engagement, probably either through peer socialisation and/or curriculum differences. In Denmark, where SES has a weaker association with track placement, the experience of being placed in IVET plays a stronger role in reducing political self-efficacy and voting intentions.

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Section: Tracking Ivet and Cpesupporting

confidence: 87%

Inequalities in the education system and the reproduction of socioeconomic disparities in voting in England, Denmark and Germany: the influence of country context, tracking and self-efficacy on voting intentions of students age 16–18

Hoskins

Janmaat²,

Han³

et al. 2014

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“…Individuals who attended college were matched with individuals who had similar propensity scores but ended up not going to college. Subsequent studies using a different matching algorithm have both challenged (Henderson and Chatfield 2011; Mayer 2011) and re-affirmed (Kam and Palmer 2011; Persson 2014) their conclusion that educational attainment has no causal impact on political participation.…”

Section: Approaches To Assessing the Impact Of Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Turnout and Education: Is Education Proxying for Pre-Adult Experiences Within the Family?

Gidengil

Tarkiainen²,

Wass³

et al. 2017

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This study uses a discordant sibling-based design to assess the extent to which education is proxying for pre-adult experiences and predispositions rooted in the family. It draws on a unique data set that combines official voting records with Census data on siblings and their parents. The results show that the association between education and voting is considerably reduced when parental education, parental voting and unobserved characteristics that are shared by siblings within the same family are taken into account. This finding is confirmed by a variety of robustness checks. We end with a discussion of the benefits and limitations of sibling-based designs for testing causal hypotheses.

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“…Neither relation nor impact between political education and political participation, due to reasons facing this new phenomenon will be discussed as follows. Different from the former study of the precursory scholars has claimed that education promotes greater political participation (Kam & Palmer, 2011;Mayer, 2011;C. Gao, 2010), and the opponent investigated the negative significance correlated between vote and political education (L. Zheng & Zhu, 2013); otherwise, there is no cause-effect relation (two-tailed) between political education and political participation in this research.…”

Section: University Educationmentioning

confidence: 75%

Influential Factors on Political Participation of Public University Undergraduates in Hebei Province, China

Yang¹,

Xia²,

Ahmad³

et al. 2018

JPL

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In recent decades, political participation amongst young people has attracted much academic research in established democracies. However, as an understudied area in China especially in Hebei province, political participation of public university undergraduates is in low level. Thus, this article concerns the political participation of public university undergraduates in Hebei province of China. The objective of this article is to identify the influential factors and determine the principal influential factor to students' political participation in the public university of Hebei province. Therefore, 1990 respondents were selected based on the cluster sampling method, the main statistical method for evaluation of research hypotheses is by the PLS-SEM. Findings of this study indicate that political education has neither effect nor relation to political participation, whereas university identity, experience, major integrated undertake directly function on political participation. Moreover, political competence is the most important for students' political participation in the public universities of Hebei province, China. Political value cognitive ability is the most important competence which influences the level of political participation among all involved factors in influencing students' political participation in Hebei public universities according to the results of Importance-Performance Map Analysis (IPMA) and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Additionally, the author suggested that in order to improve students' participatory level, enhancing capability of students is a necessary way.

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Rejoinder: Reinvestigating the Causal Relationship between Higher Education and Political Participation

Cited by 42 publications

References 12 publications

Inequalities in the education system and the reproduction of socioeconomic disparities in voting in England, Denmark and Germany: the influence of country context, tracking and self-efficacy on voting intentions of students age 16–18

Inequalities in the education system and the reproduction of socioeconomic disparities in voting in England, Denmark and Germany: the influence of country context, tracking and self-efficacy on voting intentions of students age 16–18

Turnout and Education: Is Education Proxying for Pre-Adult Experiences Within the Family?

Influential Factors on Political Participation of Public University Undergraduates in Hebei Province, China

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