TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose: 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. 
Method: This paper uses data from the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS, N=9,084). Binomial logistic regressions are used for the analyses, and average marginal effects (AMEs) are used for the model’s output.
Findings: 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. 
Research limitations: This paper cannot account for self-selection effects because adults’ participation in different political activities was collected only in one wave.
DA  - 2019-04-01
DO  - 10.4119/jsse-1443
LA  - eng
IS  - 4
M2  - 5
PY  - 2019-04-01
SN  - 1618-5293
SP  - 5-24
T2  - JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
TI  - Beeinflusst non-formale und informale Bildung die politische Partizipation?
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4119/jsse-1443
Y2  - 2024-11-22T01:47:30
ER  -