Political Science
Survey and analysis of evolving political institutions and policies in eastern and central Europe under Communism and in the post-Communism period.
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Auburn University · Political Science
0.8% of Auburn 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
40%Left75–91
40%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
20%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.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest-left subjects
Political Science
Pr. POLI 3020 or PHIL 1050 or PHIL 1053. Survey of late 20th- and early 21st- century political philosophies, including neo-classicist, post-modernist, communitarian, and critical theories.
Political Science
5. Pr. POLI 1050 or POLI 1053 or POLI 1090 or POLI 1093. Exploration of women and political representation, including why political representation matters, theories of substantive and descriptive representation, political institutions that…
Furthest-right subjects
Political Science
5. Pr. POLI 1050 or POLI 1053 or POLI 1090 or POLI 1093. This course surveys the politics of ethnicity and nationalism and their effect on conflicts around the globe.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auburn University · Political Science | bias_left_share | 0.8 | — | 124 | — |
| 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.