The weaknesses and gaps that the discipline of political science maintains to this day in Latin America cannot be explained without taking into account its checkered history as a consequence of the coups d'état that prevented the consolidation of democratic states, the repression of military regimes in universities and economic backwardness. The damage that authoritarianism produced in political science was considerably greater than that suffered by the other social sciences, because its object of study is directly related to democracy. Only with the arrival of the democratic transition processes did the development of the discipline have a significant boost, but only regional cooperation will be able to offer answers to Latin America.
Keywords:
Latin America, Political Science, Social Sciences, Democracy, Authoritarian Regimes
Author Biography
Carlos Huneeus, Profesor, Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad de Chile
Abogado, Universidad de Chile; PhD en ciencia política, Universidad de Heidelberg; profesor, Instituto de Estudios Internacionales de la Universidad de Chile.
Huneeus, C. (2006). El lento y tardío desarrollo de la ciencia política en América Latina, 1966-2006. Estudios Internacionales, 39(155), p. 137–156. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.2006.14356
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