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Northwestern University · Political Science

2.8% of Northwestern 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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Northwestern University: 2.8% 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
100%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
2 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

· Labor Politics in America72

Political Science

Examines how capitalism, law, politics, public policy, and issues of race, ethnicity, and gender, have interacted to shape workers' rights and capacities to mobilize in collective action since the U.S. founding. Emphasis on employer power,…

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· Gender and Politics60

Political Science

This class investigates how gender shapes politics and policy and how these in turn shape gender with a focus on the United States in comparative and global context. It analyzes the gendered character of citizenship, political participation…

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Furthest right

None. Northwestern University Political Science has 2 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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
Northwestern University · Political Sciencebias_left_share2.8—72—
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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