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Why are professors liberal and why do conservatives care? /

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 oppositi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gross, Neil, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The politics of American professors
  • Why are they liberal?: the standard explanations
  • Political self-selection and the academic profession
  • Political differences among professors
  • The knowledge-politics problem
  • The campaign against "liberal bias"
  • Why conservatives care.