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The New School · Political Science

25.3% of The New School'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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The New School: 25.3% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

9%Far left92–100
24%Left75–91
61%Center-left59–74
6%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
103 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

GPOL 6430 · Constituting A Revolutionary Government96

Political Science

This course examines what it might mean to constitute a revolutionary government. Questions to be addressed include: How to analyze the complexity of revolutionary possibility? How to sustain mobilizations and mass movements that seek a…

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GPOL 6493 · Captivity, Fugitivity, and Abolition95

Political Science

This course interrogates the concept of capture and two theoretical renderings of resisting capture: fugitivity and abolition. Grounded in explorations of two specific modes of capture -- slavery and incarceration -- we will investigate the…

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NPOL 3545 · CRS: Beyond Policing: Abolition and the U.S. Carceral State95

Political Science

In recent years, we have witnessed heightened attention, visibility, and activism around the joined problems of police violence and prisons. The uprisings of 2020 brought some of the largest mobilizations in U.S. history and amplified…

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Furthest right

None. The New School Political Science has 103 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
The New School · Political Sciencebias_left_share25.3—407—
Political Sciencebias_left_share5.24.8 – 5.612,053—
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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