Professors And Their Politics

Author : Neil Gross,Solon Simmons
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421413358

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Professors and Their Politics by Neil Gross,Solon Simmons Pdf

Despite assumptions in some quarters of widespread academic radicalism, professors are politically liberal but on the whole democratically tolerant and are focused more on the business of research and teaching than on trying to change the world. Professors and Their Politics tackles the assumption that universities are ivory towers of radicalism with the potential to corrupt conservative youth. Neil Gross and Solon Simmons gather the work of leading sociologists, historians, and other researchers interested in the relationship between politics and higher education to present evidence to the contrary. In eleven meaty chapters, contributors describe the political makeup of American academia today, consider the causes of its liberal tilt, discuss the college experience for politically conservative students, and delve into historical debates about professorial politics. Offering readable, rigorous analyses rather than polemics, Professors and Their Politics yields important new insights into the nature of higher education institutions while challenging dogmas of both the left and the right.

Author : Neil Gross
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674074484

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Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care? by Neil Gross Pdf

Neil Gross shows that the U.S. academy’s liberal reputation has exerted a self-selecting influence on young liberals, while deterring promising conservatives. His study sheds new light on both academic life and American politics, where the conservative movement was built in part around opposition to the “liberal elite” in higher education.

Author : Jon A. Shields,Joshua M. Dunn Sr.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199860258

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Passing on the Right by Jon A. Shields,Joshua M. Dunn Sr. Pdf

Few seem to think conservatives should become professors. While the left fears an invasion of their citadel by conservatives marching to orders from the Koch brothers, the right steers young conservatives away from a professorial vocation by lampooning its leftism. Shields and Dunn quiet these fears by shedding light on the hidden world of conservative professors through 153 interviews. Most conservative professors told them that the university is a far more tolerant place than its right-wing critics imagine. Many, in fact, first turned right in the university itself, while others say they feel more at home in academia than in the Republican Party. Even so, being a conservative in the progressive university can be challenging. Many professors admit to closeting themselves prior to tenure by passing as liberals. Some openly conservative professors even say they were badly mistreated on account of their politics, especially those who ventured into politicized disciplines or expressed culturally conservative views. Despite real challenges, the many successful professors interviewed by Shields and Dunn show that conservatives can survive and sometimes thrive in one of America's most progressive professions. And this means that liberals and conservatives need to rethink the place of conservatives in academia. Liberals should take the high road by becoming more principled advocates of diversity, especially since conservative professors are rarely close-minded or combatants in a right-wing war against the university. Movement conservatives, meanwhile, should de-escalate its polemical war against the university, especially since it inadvertently helps cement progressives' troubled rule over academia.

Author : David Horowitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781621571049

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The Professors by David Horowitz Pdf

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

Author : Jon A. Shields,Joshua M. Dunn Sr.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199863068

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Passing on the Right by Jon A. Shields,Joshua M. Dunn Sr. Pdf

Few seem to think conservatives should become professors. While the left fears an invasion of their citadel by conservatives marching to orders from the Koch brothers, the right steers young conservatives away from a professorial vocation by lampooning its leftism. Shields and Dunn quiet these fears by shedding light on the hidden world of conservative professors through 153 interviews. Most conservative professors told them that the university is a far more tolerant place than its right-wing critics imagine. Many, in fact, first turned right in the university itself, while others say they feel more at home in academia than in the Republican Party. Even so, being a conservative in the progressive university can be challenging. Many professors admit to closeting themselves prior to tenure by passing as liberals. Some openly conservative professors even say they were badly mistreated on account of their politics, especially those who ventured into politicized disciplines or expressed culturally conservative views. Despite real challenges, the many successful professors interviewed by Shields and Dunn show that conservatives can survive and sometimes thrive in one of America's most progressive professions. And this means that liberals and conservatives need to rethink the place of conservatives in academia. Liberals should take the high road by becoming more principled advocates of diversity, especially since conservative professors are rarely close-minded or combatants in a right-wing war against the university. Movement conservatives, meanwhile, should de-escalate its polemical war against the university, especially since it inadvertently helps cement progressives' troubled rule over academia.

Author : Everett Carll Ladd,Seymour Martin Lipset,Carnegie Commission on Higher Education
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015000686454

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The Divided Academy: Professors and Politics by Everett Carll Ladd,Seymour Martin Lipset,Carnegie Commission on Higher Education Pdf

Author : Donald J. Savoie
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773541108

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Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher? by Donald J. Savoie Pdf

An insightful account of the forces that shape Ottawa's expenditure budget and the relations between politicians and public servants.

Author : Ivy A.M. Cargile,Denise S. Davis,Jennifer L. Merolla,Rachel VanSickle-Ward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781838603953

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The Hillary Effect: Perspectives on Clinton’s Legacy by Ivy A.M. Cargile,Denise S. Davis,Jennifer L. Merolla,Rachel VanSickle-Ward Pdf

This volume of over thirty essays is organised around five primary dimensions of Hillary Clinton's influence: policy, activism, campaigns, women's ambition and impact on parents and their children. Combining personal narrative with scholarly expertise in political science, this volume looks at American politics through the career of Hillary Clinton in order to illuminate overarching trends related to elections, gender and public policy. Featuring an extraordinarily varied list of contributors working within the field of political science, and a fresh interdisciplinary approach, this book will appeal to broad range of politically engaged audiences, practitioners and scholars.

Author : Jon Wiener
Publisher : Verso
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994-05-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 0860916723

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Professors, Politics and Pop by Jon Wiener Pdf

“It is frightening to think the [Jon Wiener] teaches history at a university ... ”—Jacques Derrida “Wiener takes the modern university as his beat, and covers it like a police reporter ... Wiener’s mean streets are the think tank, the scholarly symposium, and the faculty lounge. And when he’s had enough of this academic low life, he listens to Elvis, Springsteen and the Beatles. He even listens to Frank Sinatra.”—John Leonard “In this book, Jon Wiener demonstrates his great skill as guerrilla sharpshooter in the forty-year war that the National Security State has been conducting against the American people. These reports from the field—the resistance—illuminate Nixon and Watergate as never before, reveal in fascinating detail the turbulence within Academe, invoke pity if not awe for that unexpected victim of state, Frank Sinatra.”—Gore Vidal “Wiener is good at spotting, and blasting, paranoid fantasy and incompetence in high (and low) places and his range of targets is impressively wide ... [his] surveys are lucid, trenchant and brief.”—Observer

Author : Grégoire Webber,Paul Yowell,Richard Ekins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108426572

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Legislated Rights by Grégoire Webber,Paul Yowell,Richard Ekins Pdf

Argues that legislatures are necessary for securing human rights, and opposes theories that locate that responsibility primarily with courts.

Author : Amy J. Binder,Kate Wood
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780691145372

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Becoming Right by Amy J. Binder,Kate Wood Pdf

Conservative pundits allege that the pervasive liberalism of America's colleges and universities has detrimental effects on undergraduates, most particularly right-leaning ones. Yet not enough attention has actually been paid to young conservatives to test these claims-until now. In Becoming Right, Amy Binder and Kate Wood carefully explore who conservative students are, and how their beliefs and political activism relate to their university experiences.Rich in interviews and insight, Becoming Right illustrates that the diverse conservative movement evolving among today's college students holds important implications for the direction of American politics.

Author : Jan-Werner Müller
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780374720711

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Democracy Rules by Jan-Werner Müller Pdf

A much-anticipated guide to saving democracy, from one of our most essential political thinkers. Everyone knows that democracy is in trouble, but do we know what democracy actually is? Jan-Werner Müller, author of the widely translated and acclaimed What Is Populism?, takes us back to basics in Democracy Rules. In this short, elegant volume, he explains how democracy is founded not just on liberty and equality, but also on uncertainty. The latter will sound unattractive at a time when the pandemic has created unbearable uncertainty for so many. But it is crucial for ensuring democracy’s dynamic and creative character, which remains one of its signal advantages over authoritarian alternatives that seek to render politics (and individual citizens) completely predictable. Müller shows that we need to re-invigorate the intermediary institutions that have been deemed essential for democracy’s success ever since the nineteenth century: political parties and free media. Contrary to conventional wisdom, these are not spent forces in a supposed age of post-party populist leadership and post-truth. Müller suggests concretely how democracy’s critical infrastructure of intermediary institutions could be renovated, re-empowering citizens while also preserving a place for professionals such as journalists and judges. These institutions are also indispensable for negotiating a democratic social contract that reverses the secession of plutocrats and the poorest from a common political world.

Author : Karen Owen
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498529839

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Women Officeholders and the Role Models Who Pioneered the Way by Karen Owen Pdf

Recent electoral seasons in American politics demonstrate women’s keen interest, involvement, and influence as candidates and officeholders. Women possess political ambition, albeit in varying degrees, and as such, women seek opportunities to be politically engaged and affect America's representative institutions. This book analyzes why American women run for political office, and explores how political role models, identified as publicly elected officials and/or those who have served in the political arena, have greatly motivated women to run for higher political office, including seats in the U.S. Congress and state governorships. Evidence from personal interviews with ten congresswomen and fifty-five female state legislators reveals the ambitious nature of female politicians, the encouragement of political factors in their decisions to advance in politics, and their perceived responsibility to be role models to other women. Moreover, in studying thirty-five years of elections data, I find substantial support for how female political role models influence female state legislators’ candidacies and electoral outcomes to higher office. This work highlights the importance of women as symbolic representatives; female politicians are instrumental in emboldening a new generation of women to engage in politics. Role models in politics indeed have a purpose and an influential nature.

Author : Diana E. Hess,Paula McAvoy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317575023

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The Political Classroom by Diana E. Hess,Paula McAvoy Pdf

WINNER 2016 Grawemeyer Award in Education Helping students develop their ability to deliberate political questions is an essential component of democratic education, but introducing political issues into the classroom is pedagogically challenging and raises ethical dilemmas for teachers. Diana E. Hess and Paula McAvoy argue that teachers will make better professional judgments about these issues if they aim toward creating "political classrooms," which engage students in deliberations about questions that ask, "How should we live together?" Based on the findings from a large, mixed-method study about discussions of political issues within high school classrooms, The Political Classroom presents in-depth and engaging cases of teacher practice. Paying particular attention to how political polarization and social inequality affect classroom dynamics, Hess and McAvoy promote a coherent plan for providing students with a nonpartisan political education and for improving the quality of classroom deliberations.

Author : Henry Aaron
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0815717776

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Politics and the Professors by Henry Aaron Pdf

In the early 1960s America was in a confident mood and embarked on a series of efforts to solve the problems of poverty, racial discrimination, unemployment, and inequality of educational opportunity. The programs of the Great Society and the War on Poverty were undergirded by a broad consensus about what our problems as a nation were and how we should solve them. But by the early seventies both political and scholarly tides had shifted. Americans were divided and uncertain about what to do abroad, fearful of military inferiority, and pessimistic about the capacity of government to deal affirmatively with domestic problems. A new administration renounced the rhetoric of the Great Society and changed the emphasis of many programs. On the scholarly front, new research called into question the old faiths on which liberal legislation had been based. In this book, the sixteenth volume in the Brookings series in Social Economics, Henry Aaron describes both the initial consensus and its subsequent decline. He examines the evolution of attitude and pronouncements by scholars and popular writers on the role of the federal government and its capacity to bring about beneficial change in three broad areas: poverty and discrimination, education and training, and unemployment and inflation. He argues that the political eclipse of the Great Society depended more on events external to it—war in Vietnam, dissolution of the civil rights coalition, and, finally, the Watergate scandal and all its repercussions—than on its intrinsic failings. Aaron concludes that both the initial commitment to use national polices to solve social and economic problems and the subsequent disillusionment of scholars and laymen alike rest largely on preconceptions and faiths that have little to do with research themselves.