Does education make voters more leftist or more rightist?: a West vs. East cross-regional analysis

Feșnic, Florin N.; Armeanu, Oana I.

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%T Does education make voters more leftist or more rightist?: a West vs. East cross-regional analysis
%A Feșnic, Florin N.
%A Armeanu, Oana I.
%J Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review
%N 1
%P 29-46
%V 14
%D 2014
%@ 1582-4551
%> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-446066
%X Education is one of the most important determinants of political preferences and voting behavior. However, the direction of this impact is not universal. In a less developed, post-communist polity like Romania, education is negatively correlated with support for the left. In a post-industrial democracy like France, increased education translates into more support for the moderate left (i.e., the "post-materialist" left, Socialists and Ecologists). We explain these differences as the joint effect of recent historical experiences and the current level of economic, social and political development of the two polities.
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