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University of California-Santa Cruz · Economics

0.8% of University of California-Santa Cruz's Economics course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Economics departments, it is 1.5%.

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University of California-Santa Cruz: 0.8% Economics at all 100 schools: 1.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Economics courses fall

0%Far left92–100

0%Left75–91

40%Center-left59–74

20%Center42–58

40%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

5 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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Framing Subject

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

ECON 183 · Women in the Economy65

Economics

Study of gender roles in economic life, past and present. Topics include occupational structure, human capital acquisition, income distribution, poverty, and wage differentials. The role of government in addressing economic gender differentials is examined.

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ECON 128 · Poverty and Public Policy63

Economics

Studies the causes, consequences, and governmental response to urban poverty in the U.S. Topics include how public policy, the macroeconomy, race, gender, discrimination, marriage, fertility, child support, and crime affect and are affected…

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Furthest-right subjects

ECON 249B · International Trade and Development Policy II32

Economics

Emphasizes government policies to promote growth. Topics include the Washington Consensus, the East Asian model, and recent policy changes in East Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union.

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ECON 164 · Economics and the Telecommunications Industry40

Economics

Covers the economics of the telecommunications industry including telephone, cellular telephone, and data communications. Particular emphasis on the Internet, satellite, paging, cable television, radio and television broadcasting. Examines…

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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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
University of California-Santa Cruz · Economics	bias_left_share	0.8	—	131	—
Economics	bias_left_share	1.5	1.3 – 1.8	8,432	—

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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