Abstract
Studies of Latin American political science are centered on analyses of national cases and are based on intellectual narratives about the institutional development and teaching of the discipline. In this article we take a different, more comprehensive and comparative approach. We distinguish and contrast two Latin American political sciences: one native to Latin America and published in journals from five countries in the region, and one foreign and published in journals from five countries outside the region. We use three types of bibliometric measures: 01. reciprocal citations in 23 academic journals indexed in the Scopus database; 02. co-occurrence of terms in titles and abstracts of 5,880 research articles published between 2006 and 2018; and 03. co-citations of authors in the bibliographies of said articles. The network of journals forms a well-defined archipelago with three clusters separated by language (English, Spanish and Portuguese). The community is divided along two main axes: political approaches versus sociological approaches. The study also points out that themes, authors, and methodologies are not significantly different between these two political sciences.
Highlights
Studies of Latin American political science are centered on analyses of national cases and are based on intellectual narratives about the institutional development and teaching of the discipline
What are the specific characteristics of Latin American political science? By ‘Latin American political science’ we mean: 01. the PS produced and/or published in journals from Latin American countries; and 02. the PS produced and/or published in journals from countries outside Latin America, but which deals with politics in Latin America
We present the results of our bibliometric measurements through two types of networks: 01. ‘co-citation networks’ between journals (Figure 01) and among authors cited in the bibliographic references of the articles (Figures 04 and 05); and 02. ‘co-occurrence network’ of terms in titles and abstracts (Figures 02 and 03)
Summary
Studies of Latin American political science are centered on analyses of national cases and are based on intellectual narratives about the institutional development and teaching of the discipline. Latin America has seen major developments in PS research, both academically (educational institutions, authors, and journals), and scientifically (themes, problems, and methods). In 2019, Ravecca published ‘The Politics of Political Science: Re-Writing Latin American Experiences’ His multimethod research is a good example of this growing capacity for self-analysis. The predominant approaches are descriptive and based either on intellectual narratives, or on an analysis of the institutional construction of Latin American PS research and teaching in specific countries (BARRIENTOS DEL MONTE, 2015; BULCOURF and CARDOZO, 2013; HEISS, 2015; MARENCO, 2015)
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