... clubs on campus, including College Republicans. It then explores why students use these particular forms of conservative political style and not others, noting that conservative students at Western Public provide explanations that are heavy on finger-pointing at liberals. It also analyzes how students...

...This chapter examines three conservative styles in which undergraduates at Eastern Elite University are engaged: civilized discourse, highbrow provocation, and a fuller embrace of campaigning. Civilized discourse is the form of expression that Eastern Elite's conservative students use...

... students' thinking and action, and particularly their political activism. The book shows that conservative students on any given campus share unique, local repertoires of conservative ideas and styles that differ from those available on other campuses. The argument is that colleges nurture and enhance...

...This chapter asks who conservative students are by drawing on two sources. First are the surveys administered by the University of California at Los Angeles's Higher Education Research Institute to thousands of incoming college freshmen and graduating seniors during the 2000s. The second source...

... of offerings on hand from each of these organizations to see how they try to foster college conservatism. The goal is to elucidate the spectrum of styles that are available to conservative students in colleges and universities. The messsage that these organizations relay to students is that “you need us...

... allege that the pervasive liberalism of America's colleges and universities has detrimental effects on undergraduates, most particularly right-leaning ones. Yet not enough attention has actually been paid to young conservatives to test these claims—until now. This book explores who conservative students...

... conservative students say they find when they arrive on the Western Public and Eastern Elite campuses—and the degree to which students comment on their university's politics. The chapter first considers each university's reputation in the higher education sector and how a school's standing in the larger field...