The Political Science in Argentina: its development and institutionalization

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the development of Political Science in Argentina in establishing its specific field based upon the process of institutionalization and professionalization. In developing this study we aim to link the specific field of disciplinary history with the conditions that make the "external history" of political science. Thus we highlight how political, ideological, cultural and economic aspects have conditioned different "political scientist’s models", that have been structured in the Argentinian history, its ruptures and continuities. In explaining these elements we focused mainly in: 1) actors, 2) products, 3) institutions and 4) networks. This allows us an adequate description of the historical process and the different interpretations of political science and politologists.