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Yale University · Political Science

2.2% of Yale 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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Yale University: 2.2% 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
50%Center-left59–74
50%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
4 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

PLSC 424 · Political Ecology in Africa62

Political Science

This course aims at introducing the students to the key concepts and issues of the interdisciplinary field of political ecology as a field that explores power relations behind environmental policies and the making and contestation of…

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PLSC 203 · Women, Politics, and Policy60

Political Science

This course is an introduction to the way gender structures how we interpret the political world, exploring topics such as women's access to power, descriptive and substantive representation, evaluation of the functioning of political…

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PLSC 437 · Nationalism and Ethnic Politics58

Political Science

Nationalism is the most powerful political force in the world. It explains why countries come together and why they fall apart, and why people trust those who belong to their ethnic or national group and distrust those who do not. This…

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Furthest right

None. Yale University Political Science has 3 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
Yale University · Political Sciencebias_left_share2.2—134—
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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