Professors’ Politics and Their Appeal as Instructors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12378846 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jason Giersch (0000-0002-0462-9477, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 281-285 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-16 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PS Political Science & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-0965 • E-ISSN: 1537-5935 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s104909651900194x |
| OpenAlex | W2996357744 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 20 |
As more universities view students as customers and as more critics accuse universities of political bias, it is important to learn how students respond to professors’ politics. Does a politically active professor make a course more or less appealing? In this experiment, I randomly presented descriptions of course instructors to current university students and asked them to describe their appeal. Subjects expressed greater interest in professors who were politically ambiguous or whose politics matched their own. Conservative professors were more polarizing than liberal professors, and liberal students rejected conservative professors more than they preferred liberal professors. Based on these results, political neutrality is the safest bet for attracting a broad set of students, especially when a professor is conservative
Appeal · Neutrality · Political science · Politics · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Academic Freedom and Politics · Communication in Education and Healthcare · Computer Science · Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences · Law
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| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |