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George Washington University · Political Science

0.6% of George Washington University'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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George Washington University: 0.6% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

0%Far left92–100

0%Left75–91

14%Center-left59–74

29%Center42–58

43%Center-right26–41

14%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

7 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.

Furthest-left subjects

PSC 2226 · The Politics of Race and Ethnicity in the United States67

Political Science

How, when, and why race and ethnicity have created and continue to create barriers or uneven roads towards achieving full political equality and opportunity in social and political institutions in the United States. Prerequisite: PSC 1002 or PSC 1002W .

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Furthest-right subjects

PSC 6338 · U.S. Foreign Economic Policy17

Political Science

Exploration of ideas and issues involved in U.S. foreign economic policy, including relationship of economic and security issues, interdependence, protectionism, role of the dollar, industrial policy, and the debt crisis.

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PSC 2338 · Nationalism40

Political Science

Causes and the effects of nationalism, covering cases from around the world. Prerequisite: PSC 1001 .

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PSC 6347 · U.S. Foreign Policy Traditions40

Political Science

Contemporary debate about the substance of American foreign policy through the lens of alternative theoretical approaches to the study of international relations. Classical realist (national interest), neorealist (balance of power),…

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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
George Washington University · Political Science	bias_left_share	0.6	—	176	—
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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