Homogeneous: The Political Affiliations of Elite Liberal Arts College Faculty | National Association of Scholars

Homogeneous: The Political Affiliations of Elite Liberal Arts College Faculty | National Association of Scholars:

"In this article I offer new evidence about something readers of Academic Questions already know: The political registration of full-time, Ph.D.-holding professors in top-tier liberal arts colleges is overwhelmingly Democratic. 

Indeed, faculty political affiliations at 39 percent of the colleges in my sample are Republican free—having zero Republicans. 

The political registration in most of the remaining 61 percent, with a few important exceptions, is slightly more than zero percent but nevertheless absurdly skewed against Republican affiliation and in favor of Democratic affiliation. 

Thus, 78.2 percent of the academic departments in my sample have either zero Republicans, or so few as to make no difference..."

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Number of Democratic Faculty Members for Every Republican in Five Broad Fields