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Dartmouth College · Political Science

8.6% of Dartmouth College's Political Science course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Political Science departments, it is 5.2%.

0%35%
Dartmouth College: 8.6% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

5%Far left92–100
12%Left75–91
32%Center-left59–74
39%Center42–58
7%Center-right26–41
2%Right9–25
2%Far right0–8
41 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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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.

Furthest-left subjects

GOVT 86.53 · Reading Marx's Capital98

Political Science

It’s hard to think of many theorists in history whose ideas were as influential as Karl Marx (1818-1883). While not particularly well-known in his own day, Marx’s ideas came to define world politics in the twentieth century—from the…

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GOVT 86.51 · The Idea of Socialism: Radical Political92

Political Science

Theory from the French Revolution to Marx In recent years, socialism has been making something of a comeback in contemporary political discourse. Three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and after a long-term decline of…

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GOVT 86.46 · Theories of Racial Capitalism89

Political Science

This class explores theories of the historical relationship between ideologies of racial difference and practices of capital accumulation since the rise of the Atlantic slave- trade. Students will examine the ways in which a host of…

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Furthest-right subjects

GOVT 86.43 · The Intellectual History of Racism:0

Political Science

Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas When was the concept of race born? Why was it invented, and how did it change the way that we think about politics? This seminar explores the forgotten “ism” of intellectual history — racism. We…

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GOVT 60.23 · Law and Empire12

Political Science

How did law justify European imperialism? What did law look like in different imperial contexts? How do the histories of empire and imperialism help us understand the history of law? Looking across regions and contexts, from early modern…

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GOVT 86.25 · Adam Smith and Political Economy35

Political Science

The eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher Adam Smith was one of the founders of "political economy," the study of the interrelationship between society, government, and the economy. This course focuses on Smith's major ideas through his…

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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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Dartmouth College · Political Sciencebias_left_share8.6—162—
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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