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Producing knowledge is not just about producing research; it is also about teaching, about helping others improve their work, and about communicating information to the public. The Knowledge Polity examines how faculty in the social and behavioral sciences do all these activities. The book draws on surveys of working academics in two major disciplines to explain how, when, and why different scholars teach, research, and provide service to their home institutions and far-flung professional communities. In the process, the findings help to document and explain long-standing inequalities by race and gender in academia.…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Producing knowledge is not just about producing research; it is also about teaching, about helping others improve their work, and about communicating information to the public. The Knowledge Polity examines how faculty in the social and behavioral sciences do all these activities. The book draws on surveys of working academics in two major disciplines to explain how, when, and why different scholars teach, research, and provide service to their home institutions and far-flung professional communities. In the process, the findings help to document and explain long-standing inequalities by race and gender in academia.
Autorenporträt
Paul A. Djupe is an associate professor of political science at Denison University, affiliated scholar with PRRI, and series editor of Religious Engagement in Democratic Politics (Temple University Press). His is the author of The Evangelical Crackup? The Future of the Evangelical-Republican Coalition (2018). Amy Erica Smith is an associate professor of political science as well as a Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professor at Iowa State University. In the 2020-22 academic years, she is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. She is the author of Religion and Brazilian Democracy: Mobilizing the People of God (2019). Anand Edward Sokhey is an associate professor of political science and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the coauthor of Politics on Display: Yard Signs and the Politicization of Social Spaces (Oxford, 2019).