From a new survey of social psychologists:
Just over 37 percent of those surveyed said that, given equally qualified candidates for a job, they would support the hiring of a liberal candidate over a conservative candidate. Smaller percentages agreed that a “conservative perspective” would negatively influence their odds of supporting a paper for inclusion in a journal or a proposal for a grant.
More here. Apropos of this, here is a new article — sort of a “how-to” for conservative academics — by Robert Maranto and Matthew Woessner entitled “Diversifying the Academy: How Conservative Academics Can Thrive in Liberal Academia.” (I think it is outside the paywall.) Here is a previous post on Woessner’s research.