The ideological orientation of academic social science research 1960–2024(link.springer.com)
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The ideological orientation of academic social science research 1960–2024
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-026-09690-2
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> 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.