Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
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Stockholm University, Swedish Institute for Social Research
No 7/2006: The Ideological Profile of Faculty in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Reply to Zipp and Fenwick
Daniel B. Klein () and Charlotta Stern ()
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Daniel B. Klein: George Mason University and Ratio Institute, Stockholm., Postal: Dept. of Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
Charlotta Stern: Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Postal: SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract: ABSTRACT: In a recent Public Opinion Quarterly article “Is the Academy a Liberal Hegemony?,” John Zipp and Rudy Fenwick pit themselves against “right-wing activists and scholars,” citing our scholarship (Klein and Stern 2005a; Klein and Western 2005). Here we analyze Zipp and Fenwick’s characterization of our research and find it faulty in three important respects. We then turn to their “liberal v. conservative” findings and show they concord with our analysis. If one feels that it is a problem that humanities and social science faculty at four-year colleges and universities are vastly predominantly Democratic voters, mostly with what may called establishment-left or progressive views, then such concerns should not be allayed by Zipp and Fenwick’s article.
This Reply was submitted to Public Opinion Quarterly on October 16, 2006, except that the submission did not include the Summary and without Appendix 1 that appear here at the end of the paper.
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24 pages, October 1, 2006
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