A new study has found that professors registered as Democrats outnumber Republicans by a ratio of nearly nine to one. The study adds that professors who donate to Democrat candidates outnumber those giving to Republicans by a ratio of 95 to one.
According to new statistics published in National Association of Scholars by Brooklyn College associate professor Mitchell Langbert and Heterodox Academy director of research Sean Stevens, Democrat professors greatly outnumber Republicans — especially regarding donations to political candidates.
Using a sample of 12,372 university professors, Langbert and Stevens say they have discovered that 48.4 percent of professors are registered Democrats, while 5.7 percent are registered Republicans — adding that Democrat professors outnumber Republican professors at a ratio of 8.5 to 1.
The researchers also noted that “partisan affiliation is the most skewed” among the nation’s highest-ranked institutions, adding that the institutions “are the most elite in each state, but they are not in all cases the most elite nationally.”
Langbert and Stevens added that the nine disciplines they sampled — Anthropology, Biology, Chemistry, Economics, English, Mathematics, Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology — also showed a discrepancy with regards to the Democrat:Republican (D:R) ratio.
“In all nine disciplines, the D:R registration ratio favors the Democratic Party,” said the researchers, noting that “the natural sciences are the least politically homogenous.”
According to the researchers, Anthropology was found to have the largest discrepancy, with a ratio of 42.2 to 1.
The study added that region is also associated with differences in D:R registration ratio, noting that the greatest discrepancy in partisanship is among professors in the Northeast — favoring Democrats at a ratio of 15.4 to 1. READ MORE
