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(2019) An anthropology of academic governance and institutional democracy, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
The attacks that concern us began with the overblown and sweeping conservative-versus-liberal rhetorical dichotomy of Nixon's "Southern Strategy." They have been filled out by the arguments of the "conservative" institutional infrastructure funded by the network organized by the Koch brothers described in Jane Mayer's 2016 Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right. They have two components, as documented in the largely anthropological literature on "audit culture" and the film Starving the Beast. One is the diffuse attack described in the literature on "corporatization" that is associated with the general defunding of higher education. The other is the direct and focused attack on governance, peer review, faculty control of the curriculum, and tenure.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92588-2_4
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Leaf, M. J. (2019). The attacks, in An anthropology of academic governance and institutional democracy, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 81-125.
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