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Purdue University · Political Science

0.8% of Purdue University's Political Science course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Political Science departments, it is 5.2%.

0%35%
Purdue University: 0.8% 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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Furthest left

POL 22200 · Women, Politics, And Public Policy67

Political Science

00. An introduction to women's participation in politics, with an emphasis on America. Structural and attitudinal conditions limiting women's political roles and contemporary efforts to change women's status in society through politics.

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POLS Y3250 · African American Politics63

Political Science

00. Politics is the process of decision making, the authoritative allocation of values, and who gets what, when, and how. Politics serve to either facilitate or repress the struggle for African American equity in the American polity.…

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Furthest right

None. Purdue 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
Purdue University · Political Sciencebias_left_share0.8—258—
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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