Political Science
A study of the role of women in politics, both in the United States and abroad, and of the impact of feminism on political theory, political institutions, and international relations. (DV)
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Pepperdine University · Political Science
0% of Pepperdine University's Political Science course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Political Science departments, it is 5.2%.
0%35%
Where Political Science courses fall
0%Far left92–100
20%Left75–91
20%Center-left59–74
40%Center42–58
20%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
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.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest-left subjects
Political Science
This course examines the society, politics, history, and culture of the major indigenous peoples of the United States (Native Americans, Native Hawai'ians, and Alaskan Natives) and Canada (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit). Major topics…
Furthest-right subjects
Political Science
An introduction to the ways that American foreign policy is made and to important substantive issues: containment, decision making, foreign policy crises, national security, and the future of US foreign policy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pepperdine University · Political Science | bias_left_share | 0 | — | 37 | — |
| 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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