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The ideological orientation of academic social science research 1960–2024 (link.springer.com)
bko 1 days 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 1 days 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?
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