re: verrrrry interesting and thought provoking post.........
I was sure the crack about the Federalist Papers would have at least gotten a comment from "Publius". :)
Some non-Democrats prefer to attribute the imbalance to the structure of academia, which allows hiring decisions and research agendas to be determined by small, independent groups of scholars. These fiefs, the critics say, suffer from a problem described in The Federalist Papers: an autonomous "small republic" is prone to be dominated by a cohesive faction that uses majority voting to "outnumber and oppress the rest," in Madison's words.
Steve G.