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Dartmouth College · Political Science8.6% of Dartmouth College's Political Science course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Political Science departments, it is 5.2%.
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.
Political Science
It’s hard to think of many theorists in history whose ideas were as influential as Karl Marx (1818-1883). While not particularly well-known in his own day, Marx’s ideas came to define world politics in the twentieth century—from the…
Political Science
Theory from the French Revolution to Marx In recent years, socialism has been making something of a comeback in contemporary political discourse. Three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and after a long-term decline of…
Political Science
This class explores theories of the historical relationship between ideologies of racial difference and practices of capital accumulation since the rise of the Atlantic slave- trade. Students will examine the ways in which a host of…
Political Science
Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas When was the concept of race born? Why was it invented, and how did it change the way that we think about politics? This seminar explores the forgotten “ism” of intellectual history — racism. We…
Political Science
How did law justify European imperialism? What did law look like in different imperial contexts? How do the histories of empire and imperialism help us understand the history of law? Looking across regions and contexts, from early modern…
Political Science
The eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher Adam Smith was one of the founders of "political economy," the study of the interrelationship between society, government, and the economy. This course focuses on Smith's major ideas through his…
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.
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dartmouth College · Political Science | bias_left_share | 8.6 | — | 162 | — |
| Political Science | bias_left_share | 5.2 | 4.8 – 5.6 | 12,053 | — |