A Liberal Education
The Social and Political Impact of the Modern University
Published on 28. February 2024
360 pages
978-1-009-42476-9 (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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English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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File size
3,60 MB
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978-1-009-42476-9 (9781009424769)
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Brendan Apfeld | Emanuel Coman | John Gerring
A Liberal Education
The Social and Political Impact of the Modern University
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01/2024
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Brendan Apfeld | Emanuel Coman | John Gerring
A Liberal Education
The Social and Political Impact of the Modern University
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01/2024
Cambridge University Press
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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.
