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Claremont McKenna College · Political Science

3.5% of Claremont McKenna 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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Claremont McKenna College: 3.5% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

4%Far left92–100

11%Left75–91

37%Center-left59–74

41%Center42–58

4%Center-right26–41

4%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

27 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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Framing Subject

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.

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest-left subjects

GOVT 179 · Law, Order, Justice, and Society92

Political Science

This course considers the ideas of major writers in the field of political theory who have contributed insight into the concepts of law, order, justice, and society. Topics will include conceptions of human nature, natural law, social…

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GOVT 136 · The Politics of Radical Movements in America90

Political Science

Radical politics from 1620-2016, including the separatist radicals, the revolution, American Utopianism, abolition, suffrage and feminism, labor radicalism, anarchism, socialism, and communism, "New Negro" and black power, and queer…

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GOVT 163 · Ending Slavery: The Democratic Statesmanship of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass83

Political Science

This course will focus on the different ways two anti-slavery statesmen worked to end slavery within the constraints of a democratic society. Readings will be drawn primarily from the speeches and writings of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick…

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Furthest-right subjects

GOVT 129E · The Political Philosophy of Hobbes25

Political Science

A comparative examination of Thomas Hobbes's political thought through detailed study of his main political works, The Elements of Law , De Cive , and Leviathan . We will consider Hobbes's alleged atheism and relativism, the role of the…

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GOVT 151C · Nations, Nationalism, and State-Building in the Middle East40

Political Science

This course offers students an in-depth look at the emergence of nationalism and the processes of state building in the Middle East and North Africa. The first section of the course reviews seminal theoretical works and defines key concepts…

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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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Claremont McKenna College · Political Science	bias_left_share	3.5	—	114	—
Political Science	bias_left_share	5.2	4.8 – 5.6	12,053	—

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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