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Yeshiva University · Political Science

1.8% of Yeshiva 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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Yeshiva University: 1.8% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

0%Far left92–100

21%Left75–91

7%Center-left59–74

50%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

21%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

14 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

POLI 2156 · Women and the Law75

Political Science

What does the law say about a woman’s right to live free from violence and discrimination, control her own reproductive destiny, and create a family? How did the law get to where it is now, and where should it go from here? These are some…

POLI 2160 · American Social Movements75

Political Science

Theoretical perspectives appropriate to the analysis of political, religious, and cultural movements; case studies of civil rights movement, women’s movement, and others.

POLI 3205 · Seminar: Welfare States in Comparative Perspective75

Political Science

Rise (and decline?) of the provision of social welfare benefits by states across the globe.

Furthest-right subjects

POLI 2235 · Israeli Politics17

Political Science

Nature of and challenges to Israel’s democracy; how security concerns translate into domestic politics; the role of Zionism in Israel’s heritage and future; and the social and economic tests that the society has faced. 2240 Escaping…

POLI 2201 · European Political Development25

Political Science

Women 2024-2026 The European Union as a politicaleconomic experiment in transnational regional integration, supranational policy making, the “democracy deficit,” enlargement issues, neoliberalism, immigration, and Europe as regional imperium.

POLI 2215 · Latin American Politics25

Political Science

Contemporary politics in Central and South America, focusing on the role of elites, the military, political parties, and civil society; attention to issues including neo-liberalism, the politics of identity, and inter-American politics.

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
Yeshiva University · Political Science	bias_left_share	1.8	—	57	—
Political Science	bias_left_share	5.2	4.8 – 5.6	12,053	—

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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