Public Opinion Quarterly Advance Access originally published online on August 20, 2007
Public Opinion Quarterly 2007 71(3):482-484; doi:10.1093/poq/nfm022
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Letter to the Editor: A reply to Klein and Stern
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Klein and Stern (hereafter KS-2007) have several problems with our article ("Is the Academy a Liberal Hegemony"), with the most general being their contention that we "misrepresent" their work. Most of this hinges on their claim that, while they studied the proportion of faculty who register or vote Democratic or Republican (their D:R ratio), we treated this as equivalent to a measure of liberalism versus conservatism. KS-2007 go on to say that we "impute ideological content" to their results while they themselves claim the intellectual high road as having been very careful not to conflate voting or party registration with