The Decreasing Political Rewards of Education in Brazil

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ID6235582
AuthorsRogerio Schlegel (0000-0002-1297-0819, Centro Brasileiro de Analise e Planejamento, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume4
Issue2
Pages78-102
Publication date2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBrazilian Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1981-3821 • E-ISSN: 1981-3821
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1981-3875201000020004
OpenAlexW2259143858
SCIELO_PIDS1981-38212010000200078
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited19

The conventional perspective in Political Science expects a strong association between education and political behaviour favourable for democratic coexistence. This approach also infers that increases in a nation’s educational attainment levels will be accompanied by sustained gains in attitudes such as political engagement and democratic support. These hypotheses have been reviewed and tested for Brazil, with analyses of surveys conducted between 1989 and 2006. The evidence confirms the conventional perspective when a single point in time is observed and dimensions of associativism are excepted. However, longitudinal analysis between the two extremities of the period revealed decreasing rewards for schooling added up by different levels of education — particularly the upper secondary — in several dimensions of participation and support for democratic principles

Association (psychology · Democracy · Democratic Education · Demographic economics · Economics · Educational attainment · Period (music · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology

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