Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care? /

Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care? / / Neil Gross.

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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....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013
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Gross, Neil ,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 3 line illustrations, 1 graph, 5 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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