In the university power is with those that sit on tenure committies and make the decisions over whom to give tenure.
I think you are making a mistake when you think of tenure decisions being about who has the best CV. Professors seeks to get their students professorships. A powerful professor manages to get professorships for a lot of their students.
In the humanities professors on the left spend over the last decades more focus on winning those power games and as a result they got more academic successors then professors on the right.
In the university power is with those that sit on tenure committies and make the decisions over whom to give tenure.
I think you are making a mistake when you think of tenure decisions being about who has the best CV. Professors seeks to get their students professorships. A powerful professor manages to get professorships for a lot of their students.
In the humanities professors on the left spend over the last decades more focus on winning those power games and as a result they got more academic successors then professors on the right.