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Are College Graduates Agents of Change? Education and Political Participation in China

Yuhua Wang

出版	SSRN, 2018
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_pP8zgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Are more educated people more likely to participate in politics in authoritarian regimes? Studies of political behavior in American politics suggest that education provides people with more resources, which make people more capable of taking political action--the empowerment hypothesis. Modernization theorists claim that education teaches people democratic values, which propel people to fulfill their civic creed--the enlightenment hypothesis. Recent work on authoritarian regimes, however, argues that education subject people to more political mobilization, which increases political participation only in ways that are harmless to the regime--the mobilization hypothesis. I test these three hypotheses in China by exploiting cross-cohort variation in access to higher education arising from a major college enrollment expansion reform. I find weak to null evidence for the empowerment and enlightenment hypotheses and strong support for the mobilization hypothesis. My findings call into question an influential argument that education helps undermine authoritarian rule.