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Amherst College · Political Science

24.4% of Amherst College's Political Science course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Political Science departments, it is 5.2%.

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Amherst College: 24.4% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

14%Far left92–100
14%Left75–91
67%Center-left59–74
5%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
21 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

POSC 366 · Marxism and Law100

Political Science

By exposing structures of domination and coercion and undermining the beliefs and values which sustain them, Marxists seek to pave the way towards radical social transformation. Tensions arise between revolutionary politics and the "rule of…

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POSC 307 · States of Extraction: Nature, Women, and World Politics94

Political Science

(Offered as POSC 307 and SWAG 307) The global energy boom has increased states' dependency on commodities across the world. From the Arctic to the Amazon, nation-states are putting large territories up for sale in an effort to turn nature…

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POSC 411 · Indigenous Women and World Politics92

Political Science

(Offered as POSC 411 and SWAGS 411) Indigenous women are rarely considered actors in world politics. Yet from their positions of marginality, they are shaping politics in significant ways. This course inter-weaves feminist and Indigenous…

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Furthest right

None. Amherst College Political Science has 21 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

Why this number, in plain words

Share of courses described from the left. Percent of all courses in the group whose Framing reading is leftward: the description frames its subject one-sidedly to the left.

Counted: all courses in the group, including N and I. No interval is published for this number.

  • Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.
Details: exact rows, definitions and method
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Amherst College · Political Sciencebias_left_share24.4—86—
Political Sciencebias_left_share5.24.8 – 5.612,053—
Formula
100 * count(bias_cat = 'L') / n
Interval
Wilson score 95% (wilson_interval)
Model / prompt / snapshot
gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats
Right-framed courses are almost absent (33 of 124,290); this run cannot tell catalog reality from model sensitivity. Compare schools with adjusted_ratio, not this raw share, because department mix differs.

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