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Why Does Democracy Need Education? / Edward Glaeser, Giacomo Ponzetto, Andrei Shleifer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glaeser, Edward.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w12128.
- NBER working paper series no. w12128
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2006.
- Summary:
- Across countries, education and democracy are highly correlated. We motivate empirically and then model a causal mechanism explaining this correlation. In our model, schooling teaches people to interact with others and raises the benefits of civic participation, including voting and organizing. In the battle between democracy and dictatorship, democracy has a wide potential base of support but offers weak incentives to its defenders. Dictatorship provides stronger incentives to a narrower base. As education raises the benefits of civic participation, it raises the support for more democratic regimes relative to dictatorships. This increases the likelihood of democratic revolutions against dictatorships, and reduces that of successful anti-democratic coups.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- April 2006.
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