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Rice University · Political Science

5.0% of Rice 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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Rice University: 5.0% 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
78%Center-left59–74
22%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
9 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

PLST 330 · RACE AND THE LAW: HOW LAWS AND INSTITUTIONS HAVE PERPETUATED RACISM AND SUPPORTED PROGRESS72

Political Science

This course is intended to introduce students to legal frameworks of analysis and sources of law pertaining to issues of racial equality. We will focus on questions such as: How has law been used to perpetuate inequality? How has law made…

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POLI 341 · RACE AND THE LAW IN THE UNITED STATES67

Political Science

Introduces legal frameworks of analysis and sources of law pertaining to issues of racial equality and discrimination. Questions include: How has law been used to perpetuate inequality? How has law made it more difficult to achieve reforms…

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POLI 456 · GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT65

Political Science

This course will examine how formal and informal institutions and development processes have shaped gender inequality across the economic, social and political sphere. It will focus on theories and evidence from low and middle income countries.

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Furthest right

None. Rice University Political Science has 8 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
Rice University · Political Sciencebias_left_share5.0—159—
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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