Political views of American academics | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: Subhajit Sahu
Date: 2018-12-03

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Political views of American academics


00:00:31 1 History
00:00:40 1.1 Pre- and post-WWII
00:03:27 1.2 McCarthyism and loyalty oaths
00:05:42 2 Surveys
00:05:51 2.1 Ford Foundation
00:07:03 2.2 Carnegie Commission on Higher Education
00:08:55 2.3 Later surveys
00:09:27 2.3.1 Higher Education Research Institute
00:10:49 2.3.2 North American Academic Survey Study
00:11:41 2.3.3 Politics of the American Professoriate
00:13:46 2.3.4 Regional and disciplinary variations
00:16:28 3 Effects
00:16:37 3.1 On students
00:18:29 3.2 On faculty
00:21:32 4 See also



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The political views of American academics began to receive attention in the 1930s, and investigation into faculty political views expanded rapidly after the rise of McCarthyism. Demographic surveys of faculty that began in the 1950s and continue to the present have found higher percentages of liberals than of conservatives, particularly among those who work in the humanities and social sciences. Researchers and pundits disagree about survey methodology and about the interpretations of the findings.