Education Democracy and Dictatorship

Abstract

In the battle between democracy and dictator, this study aims to analyze the role of education in this battle overall and gender wise. Furthermore, it investigates whether and how different political regimes classified as democracy and dictatorship affects the education sector of Pakistan. The results show that primary and middle school education do support significantly the dictator type of government in Pakistan. It is observed that female enrollment in middle school supports the dictator over the democratic. We also find that dictator promoted education equally for males and females. Overall dictators perform better in the development of education of Pakistan.