Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?
1st Edition
Published on 8. April 2013
416 pages
978-0-674-07448-4 (ISBN)
Description
Neil Gross shows that the U.S. academy's liberal reputation has exerted a self-selecting influence on young liberals, while deterring promising conservatives. His study sheds new light on both academic life and American politics, where the conservative movement was built in part around opposition to the "liberal elite" in higher education.
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Neil Gross is Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia.
Neil Gross is Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Politics of American Professors
- 2. Why Are They Liberal? The Standard Explanations
- 3. Political Self-Selection and the Academic Profession
- 4. Political Differences among Professors
- 5. The Knowledge-Politics Problem
- 6. The Campaign against "Liberal Bias"
- 7. Why Conservatives Care
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
