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Macalester College · Political Science

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

28%Left75–91

48%Center-left59–74

20%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

4%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

25 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

POLI 278 · Marx, Religion, and Biopolitical Race85

Political Science

Cross-Listed as GERM 278 , MCST 278 , and RELI 278 All readings and class taught in English; no pre-knowledge required. In this course we shall examine the relation of religion to both capital and the modern forms of political power (what…

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POLI 141 · Latin America Through Women's Eyes83

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 Theory83

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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Furthest-right subjects

POLI 285 · Ethnicity and Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe12

Political Science

Cross-Listed as INTL 285 This course explores ethnic nationalism's causes and consequences in Eastern Europe. Drawing on several disciplines, we begin by examining the core concepts and theories in the contemporary study of nationalism. We…

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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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