The ideological orientation of academic social science research 1960–2024

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> 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.