高等教育如何和为谁增加投票率?
Caitlin E Ahearn1, Jennie E Brand1, Xiang Zhou2
1University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Research in higher education
|September 13, 2024
概括
大学教育直接提高了投票的可能性,而不是像学位完成这样的间接途径. 大学的最大的公民影响有利于那些不太可能参加的学生,突出了更广泛的社会收益.
科学领域:
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 政治科学 政治科学是指政治学.
- 经济学 经济学 经济学
背景情况:
- 高等教育与增加选民投票率有关.
- 现有的研究表明,通过大学影响投票的直接 (例如,参与) 和间接 (例如,社会经济地位) 途径.
- 对这些路径及其个别变异的实证测试是有限的.
研究的目的:
- 调查大学出勤对投票行为的直接和间接影响.
- 分析这些影响如何在各个有不同大学入学倾向的个体之间有所不同.
- 探索学位取得和社会经济地位在大学与投票关系中的作用.
主要方法:
- 非参数的因果调解分析.
- 利用了来自全国青年纵向调查 (1979年和1997年队列) 的纵向数据.
- 研究了大学出勤对自我报告投票的总,直接和间接影响.
主要成果:
- 大学出席率对投票产生了实质性的直接影响.
- 通过学位完成和社会经济成就的间接影响相对较小.
- 大学对投票的最大积极影响是观察到低倾向于上大学的个人,这是由直接影响驱动的.
- 公民返回大学并不取决于学位完成或社会经济收益.
结论:
- 直接途径,如增加政治兴趣和参与,是大学对投票的影响的主要驱动因素.
- 高等教育的公民利益延伸到那些可能不会上大学的人.
- 仅仅关注经济回报,忽视了扩大高等教育机会的重大社会优势,特别是不利的年轻人.
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