Faculty Political Affiliations per Department in California Schools

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<p><a href="http://www.criticalreview.com/2004/pdfs/cardiff_klein.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.criticalreview.com/2004/pdfs/cardiff_klein.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Very interesting</p>

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ABSTRACT: The party registration of tenure-track faculty at 11 California
universities, ranging from small, private, religiously affiliated institutions to
large, public, elite schools, shows that the “one-party campus” conjecture does
not extend to all institutions or all departments. At one end of the scale,
U.C. Berkeley has an adjusted Democrat:Republican ratio of almost 9:1,
while Pepperdine University has a ratio of nearly 1:1. Academic field also
makes a tremendous difference, with the humanities averaging a 10:1 D:R
ratio and business schools averaging 1.3:1, and with departments ranging
from sociology (44:1) to management (1.5:1). Across all departments and institutions,
the D:R ratio is 5:1, while in the “soft” liberal-arts fields, the
ratio is higher than 8:1.These findings are generally in line with comparable
previous studies.

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<p>Yeah, I can't imagine it would be easy to be a really conservative sociologist.</p>

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<p>eh who cares
diversity of ideas is irrelevant anyway
only diversity of skin color and geographic location are relevant these days</p>

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<p>And yet...the idea behind diversity in the second and third was, at least initially, largely to promote diversity in the first!</p>