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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822014003321

Autore

Gross Neil

Titolo

Professors and their politics / / edited by Neil Gross and Solon Simmons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4214-1335-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (374 p.)

Disciplina

378.1/2

Soggetti

College teachers - United States - Political activity

College teachers - United States - Attitudes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The social and political views of American college and university professors / Neil Gross and Solon Simmons -- Political liberalism and graduate school attendance: a longitudinal analysis / Ethan Fosse, Jeremy Freese, and Neil Gross -- Nations, classes, and the politics of professors: a comparative perspective / Clem Brooks -- Political bias in the graduate admissions process: a field experiment / Ethan Fosse, Neil Gross, and Joseph Ma -- The effect of college on social and political attitudes and civic participation / Kyle Dodson -- "Civil" or "provocative"? varieties of conservative student style and discourse in American universities / Amy Binder and Kate Wood -- Naturalizing liberalism in the 1950's / Andrew Jewett -- Challenging neutrality: sixties activism and debates over political advocacy in the American university / Julie Reuben -- Activism and the academy: lessons from the rise of ethnic studies / Fabio Rojas -- Rationalizing realpolitik: U.S. international relations as a liberal field / Patrick Thaddeus Jackson -- The merits of marginality: think tanks, conservative intellectuals, and the liberal academy / Thomas Medvetz.