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The New School · Political Science

25.3% of The New School'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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The New School: 25.3% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

12%Far left92–100
38%Left75–91
26%Center-left59–74
15%Center42–58
5%Center-right26–41
4%Right9–25
<1%Far right0–8
213 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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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.

Furthest-left subjects

GPOL 6122 · Politics of Futurity: 21st Century Social Movements100

Political Science

In this course, we explore approaches to political theory and practice that go beyond what Iris Young calls "the distributive paradigm" of both liberalism and 20th century socialisms and seek to understand what a 21st century paradigm that…

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GPOL 6430 · Constituting A Revolutionary Government100

Political Science

This course examines what it might mean to constitute a revolutionary government. Questions to be addressed include: How to analyze the complexity of revolutionary possibility? How to sustain mobilizations and mass movements that seek a…

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GPOL 6493 · Captivity, Fugitivity, and Abolition100

Political Science

This course interrogates the concept of capture and two theoretical renderings of resisting capture: fugitivity and abolition. Grounded in explorations of two specific modes of capture -- slavery and incarceration -- we will investigate the…

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Furthest-right subjects

GPOL 5162 · Nazi Morality:Ethics of Racism(2)0

Political Science

While the moral perversion of the Third Reich is beyond question, recent scholarship has explored the Nazis belief system and its legacy. This course first examines new research on the Nazis concept of the Volksgemeinschaft (peoples…

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GPOL 5050 · Rethinking Political Regimes17

Political Science

This seminar critically explores the uses and limits of the vocabulary we use to describe contemporary political orders: what do concepts like “democracy” and “authoritarianism” illuminate, what do they obscure, and what alternative…

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GPOL 6305 · Politics, Democracy and Sovereignty: Carl Schmitt and Modern Political Theory17

Political Science

Carl Schmitt (188-1984) has become a modern classic in Political Theory and has even been named by some authors 'the Thomas Hobbes of the 20th century'. In Schmitt's work we find a critique of key aspects of modern liberal politics: it's…

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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
The New School · Political Sciencebias_left_share25.3—407—
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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