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Dartmouth College · Political Science

8.6% of Dartmouth 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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Dartmouth College: 8.6% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
71%Center-left59–74
29%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
17 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

GOVT 29 · Leadership, Sex, and Gender in Politics and72

Political Science

Business Why are there still so few women running companies, countries, and the governments? Nearly everywhere in the world, gender equity continues to be an aspiration, rather than a reality, with no end in sight as to when a reasonable…

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GOVT 86.49 · Indigenous Legal Systems & Legal72

Political Science

Pluralism This course focuses on Indigenous law and legal systems, primarily from the United States but with some attention to the jurisgenerative (or law-creating) roles of Canadian First Nations and Australian Aboriginal Peoples. For…

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GOVT 49.04 · Sex and the State in Latin America67

Political Science

This course examines women’s movements in Latin America. Women in Latin America are perhaps the most highly mobilized population in the world. Throughout the region women have organized around myriad issues, including the right to vote,…

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Furthest right

GOVT 20.11 · Entrepreneurship and Public Policy42

Political Science

Workshop The course will study entrepreneurship as both a strategic logic and a social fact. Students will simulate the business planning process in teams; and, as a class, they will consider public policy from the perspective of…

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GOVT 57 · International Relations of East Asia42

Political Science

East Asian international relations have an important impact on global stability and on the security of the United States. North Korea poses a growing nuclear threat and an ongoing risk of political instability. China’s rise is transforming…

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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
Dartmouth College · Political Sciencebias_left_share8.6—162—
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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