Political Science
00. Origin, content, and development of Marxist system of thought, with particular reference to philosophical and political aspects of Russian Marxism. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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Purdue University · Political Science
0.8% of Purdue University'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
5%Far left92–100
14%Left75–91
36%Center-left59–74
23%Center42–58
23%Center-right26–41
0%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.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest-left subjects
Political Science
00. Compares political change in the East European states, and emphasizes the legacies of authoritarianism and communism and the post-communist transition to democracy. Topics include the building of political institutions, the inclusion of…
Political Science
00. Theories about the interaction between the international economic and political systems are the subject of this course. Specific topics covered will include (among others) the politics of trade, aid, foreign investment, and…
Furthest-right subjects
Political Science
00. A survey beginning with the period of European involvement in the Ottoman Empire up to the present. The course includes the study of political Zionism and Arab nationalism, the role of the major powers between the two World Wars and…
Political Science
00. Causes, dynamics, and management of contemporary ethnic conflict. Origins and political mobilization of nationalism. Analyzes ethnic conflicts of varying intensity. Explores liberal and non-liberal forms of nationalism. Investigates…
Political Science
00 to 4.00. Political process and government structure in the Russian state. Political institutions inherited from tsarist empire and the Soviet state 1917-1991, history of subsequent political reform. Political problems of ethnic conflict,…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Purdue University · Political Science | bias_left_share | 0.8 | — | 258 | — |
| 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.