Do non-formal and informal adult education affect citizens' political participation during adulthood?

Autor/inn/en	Busse, Robin; Lischewski, Julia; Seeber, Susan
Titel	Do non-formal and informal adult education affect citizens' political participation during adulthood?
Quelle	In: Journal of social science education, 18 (2019) 4, S. 4-24Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1439-6246; 1618-5293
DOI	10.4119/jsse-1443
URN	urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-71074-9
Schlagwörter	Empirische Untersuchung; Informelle Bildung; Partizipation; Politische Aktion; Politische Bildung; Erwachsenenbildung; Deutschland
Abstract	While research on political participation hardly takes into account the effects of non-formal or informal education, the effects of formal education are well investigated. The aim of this paper is to determine the extent to which non-formal and informal education contribute to adults' participation in different political activities when formal educational background and other socioeconomic factors are controlled. This paper uses data from the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS, N=9084). Binomial logistic regressions are used for the analyses, and average marginal effects (AMEs) are used for the model's output. The findings reveal that non-formal and informal adult education significantly affect different political activities. However, the effects of non-formal and informal adult education differ with regard to the different forms of political participation. The results underline the importance of differentiated analyses of political participation and non-formal and informal adult education. In addition, the results show that some types of non-formal and informal education have a greater impact on adults of low socioeconomic status. This paper cannot account for self-selection effects because adults' participation in different political activities was collected only in one wave (Original übernommen).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main (extern)
Update	2020/3