Political diversity in six disciplines

Academic Questions

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 40-52

  Klein, Daniel B ^a,b   Stern, Carlotta ^a   Western, Andrew ^c  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stockholm School of Economics   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84873530377     PISSN: 08954852     EISSN: 19364709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12129-004-1031-4     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. David Brooks, "Lonely Campus Voices," New York Times, 27 September 2003, Section A, 15.
2. Seymour Martin Lipset, "The Politics of American Sociologists," American Journal of Sociology, vol. 78, no. 1 (June 1972): 67-104.
3. Lipset and Everett Carll Ladd, Jr. The Divided Academy: Professors & Politics (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975).
4. Lipset's "The Academic Mind at the Top: The Political Behavior and Values of Faculty Elites," Public Opinion Quarterly, vol. 46, no. 2 (Summer 1982): 143-168.
5. "State of American Sociology," Sociological Forum, vol. 9, no. 2, (June 1994): 199-220.
6. Paul C. Light, "Government's Greatest Priorities of the Next Half Century," Reform Watch, no. 4, Brookings Institution, December 2001, 3, online at: http://www.brook.edu/comm/reformwatch/rw04.pdf
7. Princeton Survey Research Associates, National Survey on Government Endeavors (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2001): 54; http://www.brook.edu/comm/reformwatch/rw04_surveydata.pdf
8. Victor R. Fuchs, Alan B. Krueger, and James M. Poterba, "Economists' Views about Parameters, Values, and Policies: Survey Results in Labor and Public Economics," Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 36, no. 3 (1998): 1400.
9. Karl Zinsmeister, "The Shame of America's One-Party Campuses," American Enterprise, vol. 13, no. 6 (September 2002): 18-25.
10. David Horowitz and Eli Lehrer, "Political Bias in the Administrations and Faculties of 32 Elite Colleges and Universities," A Report of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture (2002).
11. Contains graphic presentations of the CSPC results and related studies. Accessed 3 May 2004 at URL: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Content/read.asp?ID=55
12. Daniel B. Klein and Andrew Western, "Voting Habits of the Professoriate," Academic Questions, vol. 18, no. 1 (Winter 2004-05): 00. Online at http://swopec.hhs.se/ratioi/abs/ratioi0054.htm
13. under the title, "How Many Democrats per Republican at UC-Berkeley and Stanford? Voter Registration Data Across 23 Academic Departments."
14. The American Philosophical Association declined to sell us an address list, based on a general policy of not giving out addresses except fi)r matters of special interest to philosophers.
15. The Survey Homepage URL is http://lsb.scu.edu/-dklein/survey/survey.htm.
16. Forty-two respondents marked either public sector, private sector, or independent research, but we included them as academic based on their comments and answers to the two immediately ensuing questions, which are predicated on academic employment. 12. Using instead Left to Right (where Left is Democratic, Green, and Democratic/Green and Right is Libertarian, Republican, and Libertarian/Republican), the ratios come out as follows: Anthropology 27 to 1, Economics 2.6 to 1, History 9.1 to 1, Philosophy (political and legal) 7.0 to 1, Political Science 6.0 to 1, Sociology 29.2 to 1. We caution against reading much into the large change in the Philosophy ratio. In that one case the association surveyed was specialized and small, and 4 Libertarians in the denominator generate a large change in the ratio.
17. The 30 social-science/humanities departments are (in the Arts & Humanities division) Art History, Art Practice, Classics, Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultures, English, French, German, Italian Studies, Music, Near Eastern Studies, Philosophy, Rhetoric, Scandinavian, Slavic Languages and Literatures, South and SE Asian Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, Theater Dance & Performing Arts, (and in the Social Sciences division) African American Studies, Anthropology, Demography, Economics, Ethnic Studies, Geography, History, Linguistics, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Women's Studies.
18. Accessed 15 August 2004, at http://ls.berkeley.edu/faculty/index.html.
19. The head of the document says: "Senate Faculty members, not including Emeriti or Professors of the Graduate School, as of July 1, 2002." The Senate Faculty list included a few adjunct professors, but all of them were in the biological/physical/math departments excluded here.
20. In distinguishing the groups, for individuals with joint appointments, we went by first appointment listed.
21. The 14 social-science/humanities departments are Anthropology and Sociology, Art and Art History, Classics, Communication, Economics, English, History, Modern Languages and Literatures, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, and Theater/Dance.
22. The directory URL is http://www.scu.edu/directory/which was accessed on 17 August 2004.
23. Our forthcoming papers, thus far, include "Economists' Policy Views and Voting," in Public Choice, "Democrats and Republicans in Anthropology and Sociology: How Do They Differ on Public Policy Issues?" in The American Sociologist, and "Narrow-Tent Democrats and Fringe Others: The Policy View of Social Science Professors" in Critical Review.
24. Brooks, "Lonely Campus Voices," n. 1 above.
25. Stephen H. Balch, "The Antidote to Academic Orthodoxy," Chronicle of Higher Education, 23 April 2004, B7-B9.
26. Further page references for citations to this article will be noted in the text.
27. Another version of this article appeared as "Toward a Reconstitution of Academic Governance" in Academic Questions, rot. 17, no. 1 (Winter 2003-2004): 54. 21.
28. Richard Whitley, The Intellectual and Social Organization of the Sciences (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984).
29. This reform is advanced by Richard Vedder in Going Broke by Degree: Why College Costs Too Much (Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute, 2004).
30. Ryan C. Amacher and Roger E. Meiners in Faulty Towers: Tenure and the Structure of Higher Education (Oakland, CA: Independent Institute, 2004).