This may have to do with the lack of political diversity in the social sciences -- prominent social scientists are unanimously left-leaning.<p>Jonathan Haidt (who is himself left-wing) wrote an interesting paper on this: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;heterodoxacademy.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;14&#x2F;bbs-paper-on-lack-of-political-diversity&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;heterodoxacademy.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;14&#x2F;bbs-paper-on-lack-of-...</a>