JT the Rightwing American wrote:Dorset Girl wrote:
EDIT: The problem is, which search terms to use?! Because of the nature of what I'm looking for, the word 'academics' doesn't work because that appears in most journal articles anyway. The word 'education' isn't helping either, because so does that!
I used "studies of political leanings in academia". But i'm searching the net in general and not particular databases.
Have you found anything relevant? There's loads of stuff about voting turnout, but not Party preference. The nearest I've got is an article which says: "Although social class and education are associated with turnout in the USA, no relationship has been reported in the UK, and voting seems to have been perceived as a citizen duty." If that is true, then we need to be careful about generalising for both the USA and the UK, then, as the picture could be different in both countries.