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  Consensus, Polarization, and Alignment in the Economics Profession

Van Gunten, T. S., Martin, J. L., & Teplitskiy, M. (2016). Consensus, Polarization, and Alignment in the Economics Profession. Sociological Science, 3(published online December 5), 1028-1052. doi:10.15195/v3.a45.

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Van Gunten, Tod S.1, Author           
Martin, John Levi2, Author
Teplitskiy, Misha3, Author
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1Transnationale Diffusion von Innovationen, MPI for the Study of Societies, Max Planck Society, ou_2054288              
2Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, USA, ou_persistent22              
3Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, ou_persistent22              

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Free keywords: profession; polarization; sociology of economics; ideology; networks
 Abstract: Scholars interested in the political influence of the economics profession debate whether the discipline is unified by policy consensus or divided among competing schools or factions. We address this question by reanalyzing a unique recent survey of elite economists. We present a theoretical framework based on a formal sociological approach to the structure of belief systems and propose alignment, rather than consensus or polarization, as a model for the structure of belief in the economics profession. Moreover, we argue that social clustering in a heterogeneous network topology is a better model for disciplinary social structure than discrete factionalization. Results show that there is a robust latent ideological dimension related to economists’ departmental affiliations and political partisanship. Furthermore, we show that economists closer to one another in informal social networks also share more similar ideologies.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2016-12-05
 Publication Status: Published online
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 Identifiers: DOI: 10.15195/v3.a45
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 3 (published online December 5) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 1028 - 1052 Identifier: ISSN: 2330-6696