Voter registration of Berkeley and Stanford Faculty

Academic Questions

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 53-65

  Klein, Daniel B ^a   Western, Andrew ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84873536152     PISSN: 08954852     EISSN: 19364709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12129-004-1032-3     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Karl Zinsmeister, "The Shame of America's One-Party Campuses," American Enterprise, vol. 13, no. 6 (September 2002): 18-25.
2. A second reason not to do the analysis as Left to Right is that, as found in Klein & Stem's surveys of policy opinions (described below), although Rs are closer to Libertarians than Ds are, Rs are much closer to Ds than to Libertarians, so it doesn't make much sense to group Rs and Libertarians together.
3. Seymour Martin Lipset, "The Politics of American Sociologist" American Journal of Sociology, vol. 78, no. 1 (June 1972): 67-104.
4. Lipset and Everett Carll Ladd, Jr.'s The Divided Academy': Professors & Politics (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975).
5. Lipset "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;
6. "State of American Sociology," Sociological Forum, vol. 9, no. 2, (June 1994): 199-220.
7. Daniel B. Klein and Charlotta Stern, "Political Diversity in Six Disciplines," Academic Questions, vol. 18, no. 1 (Winter 2004-2005):41-53.
8. Paul C. Light, "Government's Greatest Priorities of the Next Half Century," Reform Watch, no. 4, Brookings Institution, December, 3, online at: http://www.brook.edu/comm/reformwatch/rw04.pdf,
9. Brookings Institution from the same source, "National Survey on Government Endeavors," prepared by Princeton Survey Research Associates, dated 9 November 2001, online at: http://www.brookings.edu/comm/reformwatch/rw04/surveydata.pdf.
10. Paul C. Light, "Government's Greatest Priorities of the Next Half Century," Reform Watch, no. 4, Brookings Institution, December, 3, online at: http://www.brook.edu/comm/reformwatch/rw04.pdf,
11. Brookings Institution from the same source, "National Survey on Government Endeavors," prepared by Princeton Survey Research Associates, dated 9 November 2001, online at: http://www.brookings.edu/comm/reformwatch/rw04/surveydata.pdf. 54.
12. 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.
13. Richard M. Alston, James R. Kearl, and Michael B. Vaughan, "Is There a Consensus among Economists in the 1990s?" American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 82 (May 1992): 203-209
14. D. A. Fuller and D. Geide-Stevenson, "Consensus among Economists: Revisited," Journal of Economic Education, vol. 34, no. 4 (2003): 369-387.
15. J. R. Kearl, Clayne L. Pope, Gordon C. Whiting, and Larry T. Wimmer, "A Confusion Of Economists," American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings 69 (May 1979): 28-37.
16. Zinsmeister, "The Shame. " op. cit., n. 1.
17. David Horowitz, and Eli Lehrer "Political Bias in the Administrations and Faculties of 32 Elite Colleges and Universities," Report of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture (2002). Accessed 3 May 2004 at URL: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Content/read.asp?ID=55
18. Zinsmeister, "The Shame. " op. cit., n. 1.
19. Stanford has a French and Italian department, while Berkeley has a French department and an Italian Studies department, which we treat as one departmental group.
20. Stanford has a medical school and Berkeley does not. We specifically wanted to investigate at least one major medical school department, and selected the Neurology department at Stanford. To create a match at Berkeley, we selected the neurobiology division of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology.
21. Journalism was investigated for Berkeley only; Stanford does not have a journalism school or department.
22. That is, Assistant, Associate, and Full Professors of the department (we did not include emeriti faculty). An Excel file containing the complete raw data, with individual names redacted may be found at the following URL: http://lsb.scu.edu/-dklein/Voter/default.htm (we will release the file with the names intact to those who assure us that the information will be used discreetly and only for purposes of verification of the data).
23. Specifically, CSPC obtained readings on 271 of 544 names for economics, English, history, philosophy, political science, sociology, and civil and environmental engineering at both schools.
24. Seymour Martin Lipset "The Academic Mind at the Top: The Political Behavior and Values of Faculty Elites," Public Opinion Quarterly, vol. 46, no. 2 (Summer 1982): 151.
25. CSPC's report (Horowitz and Lehrer, "Political Bias in the Administrations and Faculties. " op. cit., n.9) included findings uniformly across all schools for six departments: economics, English, history, philosophy, political science, and sociology, while their Berkeley and Stanford datasets in Excel files (obtained from Mr. Andrew Jones) also include Civil and Environmental Engineering.
26. For all seven departments, our study arrives at a one-bigpool ratio for Berkeley of 13.6 to 1, versus CSPC's 8.1 to 1, and for Stanford 8.2 to 1, versus CSPC's 9.6 to 1. On a department-by-department basis, in ten cases our D to R ratio was greater than CSPC's, and in four cases theirs was greater (this counts 17-to-0 as greater than 14-to-0). The data generally match up, except that ours more reliably obtained a reading and that the lists differed somewhat. Because our investigation was conducted two years after CSPC's, discrepancies need not be indicative of error.