Political Science
Development of Marxist thought from Hegel to the 20th century. Alienation, class consciousness and class struggle, universal human emancipation, the labor theory of value, historical materialism, and the dialectic.
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Rutgers University-New Brunswick · Political Science
1.6% of Rutgers University-New Brunswick'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
8%Far left92–100
29%Left75–91
21%Center-left59–74
13%Center42–58
13%Center-right26–41
17%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.
Furthest-left subjects
Political Science
Russian and central European Marxism; its origins in the 19th-century political thought of the region; Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and their intellectual opponents. Intellectual roots of the 1989-1991 revolutions.
Political Science
Course emphasizes the development of dialectical thought in the 20th century. Emphasis placed on "Frankfurt School" and its major representatives such as Max Horkhiemer, Theodore Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Herbert Marcuse.
Furthest-right subjects
Political Science
Middle Eastern culture and its relationships with revolutionary movements and radical Islam. Major perspectives on current discourses regarding revolution and Middle Eastern culture. Credit not given for both this course and 01:685:455.
Political Science
The evolving relationship of Islamist political parties and movements to democracy in the Middle East. Cases drawn from regions of the Middle East such as Turkey, Arab countries, and Iran among others. Credit not given for both this course and 01:685:357.
Political Science
Study of Arab nationalism, civil-military relations, radical Islam, women in politics, and ethnic relations through social science readings and literature in translation.Credit not given for both this course and 01:685:385.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rutgers University-New Brunswick · Political Science | bias_left_share | 1.6 | — | 126 | — |
| 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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