CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Drazanova, Lenka |
|---|---|
| Title | Does education matter for democracy? An international comparison of the effect of education on democratic attitudes and xenophobia |
| Summary | The MA thesis investigates the educational effect on support for civil liberties, support for democratic ideals and xenophobia. The purpose of the thesis is to unravel the connective mechanisms of the educational process and three attitudinal characteristics of democratic citizenship by testing three possible theories for its explanation. The study relies on quantitative measures and employs cross-nationally comparable measurements as a prerequisite of wider generalizations on a large sample of countries around the world. Three general multilevel models are proposed accounting for the political regime type at the macro- level. The models join the micro- and macro- level conclusions in a cross-level analysis of democratic attitudes and xenophobia, using first the individuals and then the national states as the unit of analysis and two aggregated variables for democratic attitudes and one for xenophobia as the dependent variables. While the assumptions of both the psychodynamic theory and the socialization theory about the connective mechanism between the effect of education on democratic norms and values find support in the present analysis, the results suggest that the ideological refinement model needs further rethinking. |
| Supervisor | Toka, Gabor |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/drazanova_lenka.pdf |
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