House Series: The Stein Rokkan Edition - Field of Education and the Transnational Cleavage

Education is perhaps the most generally used independent variable for explaining public opinion and vote choice on the transnational cleavage. Yet the extent to which a person is educated, which is how we usually conceive of education in surveys, is just one way in which education may affect political beliefs and behaviour.
Our speaker Liesbet Hooghe suggests that the substantive field of education has an independent role to play over and above the level to which a person is educated. In the lecture, she uses cross-national evidence and panel data for a range of European countries alongside the United States to build her claim.