
A Liberal Education
The Social and Political Impact of the Modern University
Cambridge University Press
Published on 18. January 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
358 pages
978-1-009-42473-8 (ISBN)
Description
Enlisting a natural experiment, global surveys, and historical data, this book examines the university's evolution and its contemporary impact. Its authors conduct an unprecedented big-data comparative study of the consequences of higher education on ideology, democratic citizenship, and more. They conclude that university education has a profound effect on social and political attitudes across the world, greater than that registered by social class, gender, or age. A university education enhances political trust and participation, reduces propensities to crime and corruption, and builds support for democracy. It generates more tolerant attitudes toward social deviance, enhances respect for rationalist inquiry and scientific authority, and usually encourages support for Leftist parties and movements. It does not nurture support for taxation, redistribution, or the welfare state, and may stimulate opposition to these policies. These effects are summarized by the co-authors as liberal, understood in its classic, nineteenth-century meaning.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
526 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-42473-8 (9781009424738)
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The Social and Political Impact of the Modern University
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The Social and Political Impact of the Modern University
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Persons
Brendan Apfeld is a Lead Data Scientist for CVS Health. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Texas at Austin. His research on comparative politics and the politics of education has appeared in journals such as The Journal of Politics and Political Science & Research Methodology.
Author
University of Texas, Austin
Trinity College, Dublin
University of Texas, Austin
University of Texas, Austin
Content
I. Background: 1. Introduction; 2. Previous Work; II. Foreground: 3. Methods; 4. Findings; III. Extensions: 5. Nuances; 6. Mechanisms; IV. History: 7. The Rise of a Liberal University; 8. Disciplinary Differences; 9. Explanations for the Liberal Shift; V. Conclusions: 10. Synthesis; Afterword: The American University; Appendices; References; Index.