Our Discipline and its Politics

Authoritarian Political Science: Chile 1979-1989

Bibliographic Data

ID6380485
AuthorsPaulo Ravecca (0000-0002-9754-9520, York University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume35
Issue1
Pages145-178
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista de ciencia política (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0716-1417 • E-ISSN: 0718-090X
PublisherSciELO Agencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo (ANID) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4067/s0718-090x2015000100008
OpenAlexW1806658247
SCIELO_PIDS0718-090X2015000100008
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited3

In most accounts Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship is understood to have impeded the development of political science in Chile.This article seeks to destabilize this understanding by showing that important elements of the infrastructure of the discipline were created during, and sometimes by this authoritarian regime.More concretely, through an in-depth and extensive examination of the political science produced during the Chilean dictatorship, I identify and characterize an institutional and intellectual space that I will call Authoritarian Political Science (APS).The findings challenge the dominant narrative that links the institutionalization of our discipline in Latin America to liberal democracy in a linear fashion, and suggest the need for a nuanced, empirically informed and theoretically dense understanding of political science's multiple historical trajectories

Authoritarianism · Democracy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Political Science Research and Education · Public Policy and Governance

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