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18.0% of Macalester 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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Macalester College: 18.0% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

0%Far left92–100

8%Left75–91

83%Center-left59–74

8%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

12 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

Furthest left

POLI 141 · Latin America Through Women's Eyes75

Political Science

Cross-Listed as LATI 141 and WGSS 141 Latin American women have overcome patriarchal "machismo" to serve as presidents, mayors, guerilla leaders, union organizers, artists, intellectuals, and human rights activists. Through a mix of…

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POLI 260 · Contemporary Political Theory72

Political Science

Transition in the nature of domination from manifest coercion to cultural hegemony. The course will focus on critical theory, principally Marcuse and Habermas, but will also consider Marx, Weber, Freud, Gramsci, Lukacs and Foucault. Every year. (4 Credits)

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POLI 276 · Marx, the Imaginary, and Neoliberalism72

Political Science

Cross-Listed as GERM 276 , MCST 276 , and RELI 276 All readings and class taught in English; no pre-knowledge required. Marx's contribution to the theorization of the function of the imaginary in both the constitution of subjectivity and…

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Furthest right

POLI 220 · Foreign Policy: The Evolution of China's Grand Strategy, 1950-205042

Political Science

Cross-Listed as ASIA 220 An exploration of US foreign policy as it relates to a country or region of pressing interest or particular significance in global political life. For the next several years, the focus of the course will be on the…

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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
Macalester College · Political Science	bias_left_share	18.0	—	61	—
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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