alt.hn

3/19/2026 at 5:53:41 PM

The ideological orientation of academic social science research 1960–2024

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

by bko

3/19/2026 at 5:55:15 PM

> 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.

by bko

3/19/2026 at 9:51:57 PM

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?

by 9dev