Political Science
Democracy, communism, and authoritarian rule in developed and developing countries; political institutions and public policy in diverse national settings; principles of comparative analysis. [3] (SBS) (CORE B)
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Vanderbilt University · Political Science
0.8% of Vanderbilt 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
0%Far left92–100
27%Left75–91
27%Center-left59–74
27%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
18%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.
Furthest-left subjects
Political Science
Global politics through feminist perspectives. Interrelated systems of power. Race, gender, sexuality, colonialism, and imperialism. Health, genocide, and slavery. Prerequisite or corequisite: 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, or 1150. [3] (INT)
Political Science
Introduction to feminist works in the social sciences. Development of feminist analysis. Important issues, feminist theories, and approaches to social criticism. Methodological challenges to feminist research. Prerequisite or corequisite: 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, or 1150. [3] (P)
Furthest-right subjects
Political Science
Rise of populist parties in advanced democracies. Theoretical and conceptual questions underlying the nature of populism. Right-wing populist parties from programs and voter base to organization and party leadership. Not open to students…
Political Science
Rise of political Islam. Origins, goals, and practices of specific Islamic groups throughout the Middle East. Global and local causes of Islamic political mobilization, and the American response to that mobilization. Prerequisite or…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanderbilt University · Political Science | bias_left_share | 0.8 | — | 133 | — |
| 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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