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- Dancygier, Rafaela, et al.
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Representationsgapet
- 2017
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Ingår i: Valdeltagande och representation. - : Delmi. - 9789188021236
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- Lindgren, Karl-Oskar, 1976-, et al.
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Access to education and political candidacy : Lessons from school openings in Sweden
- 2019
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Ingår i: Economics of Education Review. - : Elsevier. - 0272-7757 .- 1873-7382. ; 69, s. 138-148
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How does availability of education affect who becomes a political representative? Theorists have pointed out that access to education is a key to a well-functioning democracy, but few empirical studies have examined how changes in the access to education influence the chances of becoming a politician. In this paper, we analyze the effects of a large series of school openings in Sweden during the early 20th century, which provided adolescents with better access to secondary education. We use administrative data pertaining to the entire Swedish population born between 1916 and 1945. According to our empirical results, the opening of a new lower secondary school in a municipality increased the baseline probability of running for political office by 10–20%, and the probability of holding office by 20–30%.
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- Lindgren, Karl-Oskar, 1976-, et al.
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Can Political Inequalities Be Educated Away? Evidence from a Large-scale Reform
- 2017
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Ingår i: American Journal of Political Science. - : Wiley. - 0092-5853 .- 1540-5907. ; 61:1, s. 222-236
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Over the years, many suggestions have been made on how to reduce the importance of family background in political recruitment. In this study, we examine the effectiveness of one such proposal: the expansion of mass education. We utilize a difference-in-difference strategy to analyze how a large school reform launched in Sweden in the 1950s, which lengthened schooling and postponed tracking, affected the likelihood of individuals with different family backgrounds to run for public office. The data come from public registers and pertain to the entire Swedish population born between 1943 and 1955. The empirical analysis provides strong support for the view that improved educational opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds can be an effective means to reduce the social bias of elected assemblies.
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- Lindgren, Karl-Oskar, 1976-, et al.
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Enhancing Electoral Equality: Can Education Compensate for Family Background Differences in Voting Participation?
- 2019
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Ingår i: American Political Science Review. - 0003-0554 .- 1537-5943. ; 113:1, s. 108-122
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- © 2018 American Political Science Association. It is well documented that voter turnout is lower among persons who grow up in families from a low socioeconomic status compared with persons from high-status families. This paper examines whether reforms in education can help reduce this gap. We establish causality by exploiting a pilot scheme preceding a large reform of Swedish upper secondary education in the early 1990s, which gave rise to exogenous variation in educational attainment between individuals living in different municipalities or born in different years. Similar to recent studies employing credible identification strategies, we fail to find a statistically significant average effect of education on political participation. We move past previous studies, however, and show that the reform nevertheless contributed to narrowing the voting gap between individuals of different social backgrounds by raising turnout among those from low socioeconomic status households. The results thus square well with other recent studies arguing that education is particularly important for uplifting politically marginalized groups.
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- Lindgren, Karl-Oskar, 1976-, et al.
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Participatory governance in the European Union
- 2018
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Ingår i: Handbook on Participatory Governance. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 978 1 78536 434 1 - 978 1 78536 435 8
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this chapter, we provide an assessment of civil society involvement in EU policy-making. The aim is to delineate the theoretical debate on the participatory governance approach in the EU and to describe the instruments developed to implement it. Furthermore, we consider how well these mechanisms have functioned so far and the extent to which they can alleviate the Union’s alleged democratic deficit.
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