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University of Miami · Political Science

3.0% of University of Miami'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 Miami: 3.0% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

4%Far left92–100
19%Left75–91
59%Center-left59–74
11%Center42–58
7%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
27 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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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

POL 680 · Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Secession100

Political Science

Examination of the creation, breakdown, and aftermath of communist governments in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Using empirical evidence from four case studies, develops a theoretical framework for understanding cross-national…

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POL 579 · The politics of post-communist transactions90

Political Science

Examination of the creation, breakdown, and aftermath of communist governments in Eastern Europe and the USSR. Develops a theoretical framework for understanding cross-national patterns of post-communist development in the context of…

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POL 538 · Education Politics and Policy83

Political Science

Explores education politics and policy in the United States. We begin with an examination of justice-oriented pedagogies (e.g., Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, bell hook's Teaching to Transgress) to establish the norms for the course.…

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Furthest-right subjects

POL 388 · Politics of Israel27

Political Science

It is the purpose of this course to examine the Israeli system. Three themes will structure this investigation. The first considers the complex, and evolving, identity questions and politics that attend Jewishness, Zionism and being…

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POL 214 · Criminal Justice and Social Change33

Political Science

The social impact of crime as a form of domestic terrorism, the police and courts as a deterrent, and incarceration as an attempt to prevent and punish violent social behavior. This course is only open to high school students participating…

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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
University of Miami · Political Sciencebias_left_share3.0—230—
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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