Political Science
The rise and fall of communist regimes and the transition to democracy in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, emphasizing social, economic, and political influences affecting divergent paths to democracy.
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Southern Methodist University · Political Science
0% of Southern Methodist 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
11%Far left92–100
56%Left75–91
22%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
11%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
Analyzes and contrasts different patterns of national political development in Western, Marxist-Leninist, and Third World countries. Political dilemmas confronting each type of system will be examined.
Political Science
A survey of Chinese political history since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949 and the major challenges confronting the PRC today, evaluating the positive and negative aspects of China's socialist experiment by…
Furthest-right subjects
Political Science
The political development of Britain, France, Germany, and Italy. Topics include the emergence of parliament and parties, democratic breakdown and the rise of fascism, modern parties and interest groups, state economic planning, corporatism, and extraparliamentary oppositions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Methodist University · Political Science | bias_left_share | 0 | — | 85 | — |
| 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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