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Based on a review of the meta-disciplinary literature, the author explores the history and describes certain contextual factors and the influence of the U.S. tradition in the creation of the contemporary profile of political science in Canada. He does this from the point of view of the Mexican political science tradition and history, which he considers had certain parallels in its development, particularly regarding the influence of the U.S. tradition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The balance of Mexican political science in the beginning of the 21st century is positive. The development of the discipline is reflected in the growing number of undergraduate and graduate programs, publications, professional associations and researchers. However, internal fragmentation still persists. The discipline is not yet seen as a singular science (political science), but rather as a plural one (political sciences). Nevertheless, the country's democratization was favorable to the discipline in terms of opening a range of issues that now demand scientific explanations, and this has been reflected in the growth of the field of studies. In comparison with prior decades, Mexican political science has grown steadily and the future is promising for its development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This is a brief essay about the relations between facts, ideas, and focuses that have marked various tendencies in Mexican political science in the last thirty years. The central argument is that these works have taken shape in the "epistemological communities" that comprise contemporary political science in Mexico. Starting from a revision of literature produced from 1980 to 2008, we propose a general, preliminary map of the orientations, agendas, problems and methods of investigation that characterize Mexican political analysis of recent years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]