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University of Notre Dame · Political Science

8.8% of University of Notre Dame'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 Notre Dame: 8.8% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

3%Far left92–100
23%Left75–91
45%Center-left59–74
16%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
12%Right9–25
1%Far right0–8
69 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.

Furthest-left subjects

POLS 44217 · Travellers, Rights, Nomadism, and Ethnicity92

Political Science

Irish Travellers are a small indigenous ethnic minority. Despite their long history of nomadism and their unique cultural traditions, there has been limited recognition of uniqueness in political and social terms. They have been identified…

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POLS 44613 · Socialist Theories of Law92

Political Science

The course on socialist theories of law proposes to trace the history of movements related to socialism, in particular Marxism, anarchism, and the different forms of reforming socialism, in order to question their relationship to law. The…

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POLS 34633 · Gender, Society, and Human Rights86

Political Science

This course addresses the problem of inequality between women and men in terms of access, use and benefit of resources and opportunities in an environment free of violence and respect for human rights. The analysis implies the study of the…

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Furthest-right subjects

POLS 30050 · Southern Constitutionalism and the American Tradition8

Political Science

This course will explore major constitutive questions that shaped southern thinking about the political/governmental structure in the United States, principally in the post-Revolution period and in the 19th century. Among the significant…

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POLS 34570 · Immigrants, Citizenship and Nationalism in Europe10

Political Science

Taught at a host institution. The course explores the challenges of integrating a growing and increasingly diverse immigrant population into relatively homogeneous European politics and societies. While taking a broad comparative approach…

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POLS 34430 · Spanish Transition to Democracy12

Political Science

This course is part of the Toledo program. It examines the main features and social significance of General Franco's authoritarian regime as opposed to the German and Italian models, the origins of the Civil War and later social and…

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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 Notre Dame · Political Sciencebias_left_share8.8—318—
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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