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Columbia University · Political Science

6.7% of Columbia University'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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Columbia University: 6.7% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

0%Far left92–100

23%Left75–91

41%Center-left59–74

23%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

14%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

22 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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Framing Subject

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 GR8102 · ANTICOLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL POLITICAL85

Political Science

This seminar explores key texts of twentieth-century anticolonial political thought and its postcolonial interpretation. It is an advanced course in political theory for graduate students. Over the last twenty years, postcolonial approaches…

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POLS UN3124 · Gender and Political Theory84

Political Science

As a branch of political theory, feminist political theory has developed new ideals, concepts, and justifications for how social norms and political institutions should be reconstructed. This course introduces students to diverse feminist…

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POLS BC3114 · COLL: AFRICAN AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT83

Political Science

This course explores the history and the present of African American political theory and practice, through an analysis of theoretical texts, pamphlets/manifestos, and popular culture from the periods of the abolitionist movement,…

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Furthest-right subjects

POLS BC3436 · COLL: THEORIES OF LAW AND AMERICAN CONST24

Political Science

This class will take up a range of debates within philosophy of law, with emphasis on the relationship between law, morality and various types of polities. We will explore a variety of approaches to the philosophy of law, including natural…

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POLS GR8160 · Neoliberalism25

Political Science

This course will examine the work of the twentieth-century thinkers often lumped together as “neoliberals,” as well as some of the scholarly literature around neoliberalism that has proliferated in recent decades. We do not begin from the…

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POLS UN3619 · NAT'L & CONTEMP WORLD POLITICS25

Political Science

The causes and consequences of nationalism. Nationalism as a cause of conflict in contemporary world politics. Strategies for mitigating nationalist and ethnic conflict.

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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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Columbia University · Political Science	bias_left_share	6.7	—	135	—
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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