Professors and their politics [electronic resource] / edited by Neil Gross and Solon Simmons.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 1950s / 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.

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