Voter Turnout, Information Acquisition and Education: Evidence from 15 European Countries
This article examines the impact of education on political participation in 15 European countries. We use data from the European Social Survey and find that education is positively associated with voter turnout and information acquisition about politics and currents affairs. However, when we use exogeneous changes in compulsory schooling to instrument education, we observe a statistically significant causal relationship in the case of information acquisition but not voter turnout.
D'HOMBRES Beatrice;
BORGONOVI Francesca;
HOSKINS Bryony;
2011-01-11
The Berkeley Electronic Press
JRC61283
1935-1682,
http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/vol10/iss1/art90,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC61283,
10.2202/1935-1682.2463,
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