%0 Journal Article
%T From the Schools to the Streets: Education and Anti
%A Yael Zeira
%J Comparative Political Studies
%@ 1552-3829
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0010414018806539
%X Are better educated individuals more likely to engage in anti-regime resistance and why? Scholars of democratic politics widely view education as a key factor shaping political participation. Yet, the effect of education on participation in noninstitutionalized political conflict is less well understood. Using data from an original large-scale survey of participants and nonparticipants in Palestinian resistance, this article demonstrates that education has a complex, curvilinear effect on participation: intermediate levels of education significantly increase the likelihood of participation in protest but additional years of education do not. These findings are explained through a novel, institutionalist argument, which focuses on the structure of education rather than its content. The article¡¯s conclusions challenge existing perspectives that characterize participants in political conflict as either educated, underemployed, and disaffected or poor, uneducated, and marginalized
%K conflict processes
%K Middle East
%K survey design
%K social movements
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0010414018806539