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It never seems to occur to anyone that maybe, just maybe ... there is an anti-conservative selection pressure or bias? Look at the "nomenklatura" in USSR times
by patrickg_zill 10y ago
It never seems to occur to anyone that maybe, just maybe ... there is an anti-conservative selection pressure or bias?
Look at the "nomenklatura" in USSR times - they were all good Party members, and they too, had the higher university degrees.
If you weren't a Party member or in other ways, indicated disloyalty to the prevailing political worldview ... you didn't get admitted to the choice spots.
How many "Western-style free market" (however defined) professors with tenure, were there in Moscow, in 1987? Must mean that as an economic perspective it was wholly discredited, right?
- gozur88 10y agoThis. It boils down to tenure. An open conservative is not going to get tenure outside the hard sciences, so there's not much reason to get a PhD.