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The survey found that Democrats outnumber Republicans in all academic fields. The field of anthropology had the highest ratio, with one Republican professor to every 30.2 Democrats. Sociology came in second with a ratio of 28 to one. Overall, the survey’s lowest estimation of liberals to conservatives in humanities departments is one Republican to every seven Democrats.
The study was conducted by Daniel Klein, associate professor of economics at Santa Clara University and Charlotta Stern of the Institute for Social Research at Stolkholm University. The study, distributed to more than 1,000 university professors around the country, posed 57 questions about 18 policy issues, voting behavior and background variables. >> continue
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