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University of California, Berkeley · Political Science

2.8% of University of California, Berkeley'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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University of California, Berkeley: 2.8% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

0%Far left92–100

17%Left75–91

83%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

6 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

POLECON 165 · Power and Opportunity in American Capitalism75

Political Science

This course examines how institutions, ideologies, and social actors have shaped political and economic opportunity in the United States from the colonial era to the present. Through interdisciplinary readings and collaborative projects,…

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POLECON 159 · Digital Technology, Political Economy, and Justice70

Political Science

How can we understand the role of digital technology in our lives and in society today? In this course we will investigate the political economy of digital technologies. In doing so, we will consider how the rapid rise of digital…

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POL SCI 247G · The Comparative Politics of the Welfare State65

Political Science

This course analyzes the politics of social protection in Western Europe and the United States. After describing different national welfare regimes, we turn to contemporary challenges, notably globalization, persistent poverty, and changes…

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Furthest right

None. University of California, Berkeley Political Science has 6 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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
University of California, Berkeley · Political Science	bias_left_share	2.8	—	217	—
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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