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Hamilton College · Political Science

5.5% of Hamilton 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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Hamilton College: 5.5% 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
100%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
6 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

GOVT 212 · Climate Change65

Political Science

This course investigates the scientific, social, economic and political dimensions of anthropogenic climate change, including our scientific understanding of its causes, its local and planetary human and ecological impacts, and the…

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GOVT 216 · Politics in Latin America63

Political Science

This course explores the politics of Latin America by looking at the political history and contemporary politics of various countries in the region. We will explore how the strength of states, variations in regime type, and pervasive…

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GOVT 316 · Civic Republicanism62

Political Science

Civic republicanism is a political tradition that emphasizes civic virtue, political participation, non-domination, and the common good. Civic republicanism influenced the American founding and the Abolitionist, labor, antipoverty, Civil…

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Furthest right

None. Hamilton College Political Science has 6 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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
Hamilton College · Political Sciencebias_left_share5.5—109—
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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