Book review: diploma democracy: the rise of political meritocracy by Mark Bovens and Anchrit Wille

Hampton, James (2017) Book review: diploma democracy: the rise of political meritocracy by Mark Bovens and Anchrit Wille. LSE Review of Books (29 Nov 2017). Website.

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In Diploma Democracy: The Rise of Political Meritocracy, Mark Bovens and Anchrit Wille examine how Western democracies are shaped by educational inequalities that lead to gaps in political participation and governments being dominated by academic elites. While less sure of some of the authors’ solutions for these ‘diploma democracies’, this is a convincing account of the influence of education on political inequality in Western Europe today, writes Jameel Hampton. Diploma Democracy: The Rise of Political Meritocracy. Mark Bovens and Anchrit Wille. Oxford University Press. 2017.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2017 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	J Political Science > JA Political science (General)
Date Deposited:	13 Dec 2017 15:22
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 21:14
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/86250

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