Affiliation:
1. Laboratory for Sociopolitical Destabilization Risks Monitoring, HSE University, Moscow, Russia
2. Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Abstract
This study investigates the effect that formal education, as a factor of socio-economic development, has on the intensity and forms of political protest. By way of increased socialization of democratic values, increased cognitive understanding of the society at large, and human capital to participate in protests, increases in a country’s level of formal education should theoretically lead to increased levels of peaceful protest. However, increases in formal education are also theorized to play a mitigating role on the intensity of violent protests (riots) for the previously mentioned reasons as well as the fact that education acts as a strong factor in increasing social mobility. With data from 1960 to 2010 and spanning 216 countries, our empirical tests demonstrate a significant positive relationship between formal education and the intensity of anti-government protests at the early stages of socio-political development and a strong negative relationship between education and riots along the full range of data, with the later stages of development revealing a particularly strong negative correlation.
Funder
Russian Science Foundation
Subject
Political Science and International Relations,Sociology and Political Science
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