Stratified Modernity, Protest, and Democracy in Cross-National Perspective
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Stratified Modernity, Protest, and Democracy in Cross-National Perspective
Yazar:
Kolczynska, Marta Joanna, author.
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9780438071469
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1 electronic resource (182 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Kazimierz Slomczynski; Craig Jenkins Committee members: Edward Crenshaw; Vincent Roscigno.
Özet:
The goal of this dissertation is to analyze the links between democratic values, political trust, and protest participation, and the consequences of educational stratification of values, attitudes, and participation for democratization. I highlight in particular the concept of stratified modernity, which refers to the differences in the adoption of modern values across social strata. Modernity is stratified because of the differential exposure to education systems, which are a medium of spreading modern values and orientations, as well as expectations regarding legitimate political rule, across the globe. By emphasizing the role of education in shaping within-country distributions of values, and pointing to the consequences of the social stratification of protest participation, this dissertation provides new insight into the mechanisms through which modernization improves chances for democratization.
In the first empirical chapter (Chapter 4), I examine determinants of democratic values and political trust. Together these analyses test the stratified modernity thesis. I find that education is positively associated with democratic values regardless of the level of democracy of the country, and that political trust reflects the level of congruence between individual democratic values and the values represented by the political regime. In democratic countries, more educated individuals tend to have more political trust than less educated individuals, and the opposite is true for non-democracies. The second empirical chapter (Chapter 5) focuses on participation in demonstrations, and finds that participation rates tend to be highest in countries with high levels of political trust and high quality of democracy, and low political trust combined with low levels of democracy, pointing to the differential effects of political trust on demonstration rates across regimes types. Further, I find that individuals with low levels of political trust are more likely to participate in mass protest, which confirms prior findings on this topic. In the final analysis (Chapter 6), I explore how the stratification of protest participation influences democratization. According to the stratified modernity thesis, the more highly-educated strata of societies are more likely to hold democratic values and orientations, hence their participation could be expected to be more consequential for democratization. I find that the relative domination of highly educated people among protesters increases chances for improvements in the country's quality of democracy. These results support prior findings about the importance of individual value orientations for democratization.
This dissertation relies on secondary analyses of survey data. I use a subset of the Survey Data Recycling dataset stemming from ex post harmonization of 14 cross-national survey projects, combined with country-level indicators of the quality of democracy and economic development, as well as methodological quality control variables. Modeled as a multi-level structure, with either individuals or country-years as the unit of analysis, this dataset allows me to test the consecutive stages of the hypothesized mechanism while overcoming some of the major weaknesses of prior cross-national large-N empirical studies relating values and attitudes to democratization, primarily related to limited variation of democratic quality within the country sample and lack of consideration to intra-societal processes when explaining macro outcomes.
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