Educating Demonstrators: Education and Mass Protest in Africa
Educating Demonstrators: Education and Mass Protest in Africa
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教育示威者：非洲的教育和大规模抗议
DOI：
10.1177/0022002717721394
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Tore Wig
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作者：
Sirianne Dahlum;Tore Wig
受教育程度更高的民众是否会刺激挑战政权的大规模抗议活动？人们普遍认为，受过教育的人更有可能通过抗议活动集体挑战政府，这可能解释了为什么教育与民主化有关。虽然许多研究调查了教育对传统政治参与(投票、请愿等)的影响，但尚不清楚教育水平是否会影响有争议的大规模抗议活动。这篇文章认为，教育通过缓解集体行动问题和激发大众反对，特别是在独裁国家，增加了大规模抗议的频率。在非洲，这些联系是在国家以下一级进行调查的，方法是将600,000多名调查受访者映射到空间化的抗议活动数据。我们提出的证据表明，人口受教育程度较高的地区有更高水平的抗议活动，我们发现与推动这种关系的机会和不满相关机制一致的混合证据。我们继续通过利用殖民时代基督教传教士的所在地来确定教育的因果关系，以衡量当地的教育水平。
Does a more educated population spur regime-challenging mass protest? It is commonly argued that educated individuals are more likely to collectively challenge governments through protests and that this may explain why education is associated with democratization. While many studies have investigated education’s effect on conventional political participation (voting, petitioning, etc.), it is not known whether education levels affect contentious mass protest. This article argues that education increases the frequency of mass protest, by alleviating collective-action problems and motivating mass opposition, particularly in autocracies. These links are investigated at the subnational level in Africa, by mapping over 600,000 survey respondents to spatialized protest-event data. We present evidence that areas with more educated populations have higher levels of protest activity, and we find mixed evidence consistent with both opportunity- and grievance-related mechanisms driving this relationship. We proceed to identify the causal effect of education by using the location of colonial-era Christian missions to instrument for local education levels.