Political Science
Instructor Shaw An examination seminal writings by Marx and Engels and their elaboration by later writers such as Lenin, Gramsci, Lukacs, Fanon, Mao and Marcuse. Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.
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Davidson College · Political Science
4.6% of Davidson College's Political Science course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Political Science departments, it is 5.2%.
0%35%
Where Political Science courses fall
10%Far left92–100
10%Left75–91
30%Center-left59–74
30%Center42–58
10%Center-right26–41
10%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
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
Political Science
Instructor Murray This course is composed of academic writing, research methods, readings, and discussion focused on racial inequality in education. We take a critical analytic approach to understand how schools and school systems oppress…
Political Science
Spring 2020 POL 239 A Topic: Social Movements and Social Change in the United States Instructor: Yesnowitz When and why do social movements occur? What motivates some individuals to participate in organized collective action? What role do…
Furthest-right subjects
Political Science
Instructor Toska This course examines how modern Islam, from the middle of the nineteenth century to today, "became" political. It explores the role of theology and domestic and international politics in the development of Islamic…
Political Science
Instructor Shaw The course explores the diverse intellectual currents of modern conservative philosophy, including close readings of signal writings by Hume, Burke, Hayek, Scruton and Sowell.
Political Science
Fall 2016 - Chinese Political Thought: Ancient and Modern Given China's current prominence in global affairs, there has been a recent revival of interest in what China might teach us about the nature of political life. While many earlier…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davidson College · Political Science | bias_left_share | 4.6 | — | 109 | — |
| 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.