The democratic lessons learned

• Verfasst von: Weiß, Julia [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Parth, Anne-Marie [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The democratic lessons learned
• Titelzusatz: how experiences of (un-)equal treatment in school influence satisfaction with democracy in later life
• Verf.angabe: Julia Weiss, Anne-Marie Parth
• Jahr: 2022
• Umfang: 28 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 13.03.2023
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft
• Ort Quelle: Wiesbaden : Springer VS, 1996
• Jahr Quelle: 2022
• Band/Heft Quelle: (2022)
• ISSN Quelle: 1430-6387
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Weiß, Julia, 1992 - : The democratic lessons learned. - 2022
• Sach-SW: Cumulative effects of marginalization
• Sach-SW: Equal treatment
• Sach-SW: Impressionable years
• Sach-SW: Satisfaction with democracy
• Sach-SW: School
• K10plus-PPN: 1839014539

Abstract

Previous studies have shown that economic and political experiences influence the level of satisfaction with democracy; however, they fail to explain whether these experiences have the same effect for everyone, whether there is interindividual variance and where these differences might be rooted. In this article, we investigate these roots of interindividual variance and base our argument on the observation that early experiences in school are formative and influence the effect of economic and political experiences on satisfaction with democracy. We analyze an original representative dataset on the German population to test how school experiences, more precisely equal treatment in school, interact with economic and political experiences in later life and thereby influence satisfaction with democracy. We find that school experiences play a significant role here. Voting for the governing parties especially increases satisfaction with democracy if respondents were treated equally in school. Similarly, past experiences of unemployment in particular decrease people’s levels of satisfaction with the political system if they were not treated equally in school. The findings highlight that early experiences made in school can have a relevant influence on satisfaction with democracy in later life.