The ideological orientation of academic social science research 1960–2024

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-026-09690-2

by bko • 4 months ago

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bko• 4 months ago

First, roughly 90 percent of politically relevant social science articles leaned left 1960–2024, and the mean political stance of every social science discipline was left-of-center every year during the period.
Second, all disciplines showed leftward movement between 1990 and 2024.
Third, policy-proximal disciplines generally showed limited rightward moderation between roughly 1970 and 1990, though policy-distal disciplines did not.
Fourth, disciplines with greater leftward orientation generally displayed greater ideological homogeneity
Fifth, sociocultural content was more consistently left-leaning than economic content, and that gap widened over time.

9dev• 4 months ago

Is that because people interested in social science are generally left leaning, or because when actually researching social issues you discover that progressive liberalism has the better answers?

The ideological orientation of academic social science research 1960–2024

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