Higher Education and Democratic Public Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6307665 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jyl Josephson (0000-0002-4843-2705, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University-Newark, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 155-170 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0739-3148 • E-ISSN: 1469-9931 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07393148.2020.1773726 |
| OpenAlex | W3035181372 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
It is time to reclaim the egalitarian democratic purposes of public universities. Public universities and colleges play a crucial political and public role in a democratic society. Yet much of the higher education literature looks at higher education through an economic framework. This paper argues that a healthy and broadly accessible higher education system serves the democratic public interest in a democratic polity such as the United States. It concludes by arguing that public universities could serve the public interest more effectively with an expansive view of who the “public” is and of their role as anchor institutions for democracy
Democracy · Expansive · Higher education · Political science · Politics · Polity · Public education · Public life · Sociology · Higher Education Governance and Development · Law · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |