Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care? / Neil Gross.
Gross, Neil , author.
2013
LB2331.72 .G76 2013eb
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Title Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care? / Neil Gross.
Author Gross, Neil , author.
ISBN 9780674074484
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674074484
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 3 line illustrations, 1 graph, 5 tables
Item Number 10.4159/harvard.9780674074484 doi
Call Number LB2331.72 .G76 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 378.1 2
Summary Some observers see American academia as a bastion of leftist groupthink that indoctrinates students and silences conservative voices. Others see a protected enclave that naturally produces free-thinking, progressive intellectuals. Both views are self-serving, says Neil Gross, but neither is correct. Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care? explains how academic liberalism became a self-reproducing phenomenon, and why Americans on both the left and right should take notice. Academia employs a higher percentage of liberals than nearly any other profession. But the usual explanations-hiring bias against conservatives, correlations of liberal ideology with high intelligence-do not hold up to scrutiny. Drawing on a range of original research, statistics, and interviews, Gross argues that "political typing" plays an overlooked role in shaping academic liberalism. For historical reasons, the professoriate developed a reputation for liberal politics early in the twentieth century. As this perception spread, it exerted a self-selecting influence on bright young liberals, while deterring equally promising conservatives. Most professors' political views formed well before they stepped behind the lectern for the first time. Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care? shows how studying the political sympathies of professors and their critics can shed light not only on academic life but on American politics, where the modern conservative movement was built in no small part around opposition to the "liberal elite" in higher education. This divide between academic liberals and nonacademic conservatives makes accord on issues as diverse as climate change, immigration, and foreign policy more difficult.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Politics of American Professors
Chapter 2. Why Are They Liberal? The Standard Explanations
Chapter 3. Political Self-Selection and the Academic Profession
Chapter 4. Political Differences among Professors
Chapter 5. The Knowledge- Politics Problem
Chapter 6. The Campaign against "Liberal Bias"
Chapter 7. Why Conservatives Care
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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