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The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage

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untries and over time, surveying the general population and higher education students in particular. On the meso-level, we analyze the party politics of the educational cleavage using qualitative and machine learning tools plus an expert survey. On the macro-level we explore whether and why policy-makers are increasingly responsive to more educated citizens, using comparative case studies. Overall, POLEDUC studies a phenomenon of utmost social and scientific relevance. It breaks new theoretical and empirical ground on a core cleavage of contemporary politics, uncovering a defining feature of modern democracy and contributing novel insights to several fields and disciplines. education, politics of education, skills, cleavages, cleavage politics, comparative politics, political sociology, political behavior, attitudes, policy preferences, party politics, policy-making, welfare state, comparative political economy

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recordType
award
status
SIGNED
region
EU
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1999966
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EUR

Evidence & attribution

European Commission, CORDIS Horizon Europe project dataset. Metadata adapted.

License: CORDIS reuse policy

First collected: 2026-09-20T03:21:21.440Z. This is not the publication date.