Political Diversity in Six Disciplines

Autor/inn/en	Klein, Daniel B.; Stern, Charlotta
Titel	Political Diversity in Six Disciplines
Quelle	In: Academic Questions, 18 (2004) 1, S.40-52 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-4852
DOI	10.1007/s12129-004-1031-4
Schlagwörter	Political Science; Voting; Political Attitudes; College Faculty; Political Affiliation; Intellectual Disciplines; Correlation; Teacher Surveys; Professional Associations + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Staatslehre; Politikwissenschaft; Politische Wissenschaft; Abstimmung; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Fakultät; Politisches Interesse; Geisteswissenschaften; Korrelation
Abstract	During the past 35 years, Seymour Martin Lipset and his collaborators have generated a series of studies and reports on the political alignment in academia. They have all found the social sciences and humanities to be preponderantly Democratic. In the past decade there has been little scholarly inquiry into the political orientation of faculty. There has been a growing complaint about "liberal bias" in cultural institutions generally. However, any compilation of personal testimony will be dismissed as the exaggerations of people with an axe to grind. To resolve the matter, the evidence must advance from personal testimony to actual measurement. Thus, voter registration data is certainly sufficient to establish extreme lopsidedness between Democrats and Republicans, but it is too incomplete to arrive with much confidence at estimates of the actual proportions. In Spring 2003 the authors surveyed U.S. members in six nationwide social science and humanities associations: (1) American Anthropological Association; (2) American Economics Association; (3) American Historical Association; (4) American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy; (5) American Political Science Association; and (6) American Sociological Association. The survey posed an unambiguous question about voting behavior: To which political party have the candidates you've voted for in the past ten years mostly belonged? The question asked for the party most voted for. Nineteen respondents spontaneously checked two parties (and 14 checked three or more parties). Of the 19 who checked two, only seven checked Democratic and Republican. This strongly suggests that individuals who vote for the major parties align themselves with one or the other. (Contains 2 tables, 1 figure, and 22 notes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10