"The Natural Rate of Education" as the Factor of Political Stability and Human Capital Development in the Context of the "Arab Spring" and Contemporary Russia

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10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.19How to use a DOI?

Keywords

political stability; education; unemployment; political regime; protest movements

Abstract

The given article contains a hypothesis about the increasing level of influence of the system of tertiary education on stability of political regimes in many contemporary countries. In order to reveal the mechanism of such influence, the authors propose the concept of "natural rate of education", which reflects optimal balance between the labor market and the educational system from the perspective of avoidance and tackling of social protests and instability. The authors suppose that the stabilizing function of the system of tertiary education is determined by its role of the specific regulator of labor market and its capability to involve millions of young males, providing them long-term occupation. Under the state policy, this stabilizing function may be enormously exaggerated and even reach the point of extremum and become counterproductive, triggering mass protests. The article contains interdisciplinary approach, being on junction of political science and economics. The authors use selected methodological foundations of theory of human capital and introduce the notions: "educational pyramid", "educational bubble" and others. The article also includes a case study of Egypt and Tunisia before the Arab spring and contemporary Russia. The authors stress that Russian tertiary education system plays a unique and significant political role.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Andrej Belchenko
AU  - Vladimir Ivanov
AU  - Ivan Kurinin
AU  - Aleksei Teplov
PY  - 2018/07
DA  - 2018/07
TI  - "The Natural Rate of Education" as the Factor of Political Stability and Human Capital Development in the Context of the "Arab Spring" and Contemporary Russia
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 82
EP  - 88
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.19
DO  - 10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.19
ID  - Belchenko2018/07
ER  -