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Bowdoin College · Political Science

8.2% of Bowdoin College'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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Bowdoin College: 8.2% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

0%Far left92–100
20%Left75–91
60%Center-left59–74
20%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
10 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

GOV 3605 · (b, DPI, IP) Queering International Relations88

Political Science

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House. The call for political change implicit in the title of Audre Lorde's iconic essay put at stake something more profound than the result of change itself: that radical critique is…

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GOV 3530 · (b, DPI, IP) Borders, Migration, Difference80

Political Science

This seminar invites students to interrogate the historical understanding of borders in international relations as the definitive markers of state sovereignty. We will use critical and decolonial approaches to interrogate the complicity…

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GOV 2465 · (b, DPI, IP) The Politics of Dissent in Latin America72

Political Science

This course explores the contemporary politics of dissent in Latin America. To do so it goes beyond conventional institutional and electoral settings, since dissent is not simply a moment of protest or resistance, nor the collective plea…

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Furthest right

GOV 3200 · (b) Advanced Seminar in Political Theory: Tocqueville42

Political Science

More than 150 years after its publication, "Democracy in America" remains the most powerful sympathetic critique of modern liberal democracy ever written. Careful reading of the text and selected secondary sources leads to examination of…

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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
Bowdoin College · Political Sciencebias_left_share8.2—110—
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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