Education And Revolutions. Why Do Revolutionary Uprisings Take Violent Or Nonviolent Forms?

Ilya Medvedev (), Vadim Ustyuzhanin () and Andrey Korotayev
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Ilya Medvedev: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Vadim Ustyuzhanin: National Research University Higher School of Economics

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Abstract: Is there a relationship between education and the type of revolutionary action – violent or nonviolent? Past studies found a positive relationship between the education and nonviolence, but the influence that education produces on the form that revolution takes has not yet been explored. This paper examines it at a cross-national level with an analysis of 370 revolutionary episodes recorded between 1950 and 2019. By using logistic regression and our own index, we fully confirmed the hypothesis: education is a strong and consistently significant predictor of the form of revolutionary movement

Keywords: education; revolutions; nonviolent revolution; violent revolution; destabilization; protest campaigns (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D74 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2021
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Published in WP BRP Series: Political Science / PS, October 2021, pages 1-23

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