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Brown University · Political Science9.7% of Brown University's Political Science course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Political Science departments, it is 5.2%.
Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.
Political Science
Futurity is the quality or state of being of or concerned with the prospects and possibilities of a future time, event, or continuing and renewed existence. It is an approach, a perspective, and framework for thought and action. In this…
Political Science
Decolonization. Because kinship relationships to land and all existents of that land are fundamental to Indigenous Peoples, resurgence and decolonization must be studied in the context of specific Indigenous Peoples and the ways they resist…
Political Science
Is Socialism a political or fundamentally anti-political doctrine? Does it seek the realization of real democracy or the abolition of political life itself? Is it a theory of the organization of politics or of work? Does it require…
Political Science
This seminar will examine the political and philosophical thought of Ayn Rand (1905–1982). We will begin with her political ideology and continue to the philosophical foundations she claims justify that ideology. The latter quarter of the…
Political Science
What is libertarianism? In what sense can libertarians claim to combine the best of the “right” with the best of the “left?” Why do libertarians emphasize private property? Why are they skeptical of political agency? Are libertarians…
Political Science
Why has radical political Islam emerged as a global threat in our lifetime? This course examines potential domestic sources, such as repressive governments and poverty, as well as international sources, such as U.S. foreign policy, with a…
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.
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown University · Political Science | bias_left_share | 9.7 | — | 340 | — |
| Political Science | bias_left_share | 5.2 | 4.8 – 5.6 | 12,053 | — |