From the 1970’s, the formal study of political science in Mexico has experienced an unprecedented growth. This essay focuses on the last three decades of evolution of political science in Mexico from two perspectives, the institutional, distinguished by the progressive autonomy research departments devoted
to political studies have achieved in regard of other areas, such as sociology, and from the epistemological perspective, characterized by the end of the Marxist paradigm as a sufficient reserve of analytic accounts regarding political events occurring in Mexican public life after 1982. Even though liberal political science
had been introduced in Mexico prior to this date, it was not until then that it acquired a comprehensive influence. Simultaneously, public awareness of political affairs grew along with the strengthening of a scientific community which profits from journals, academic departments and research institutes which
fulfill their inquests nurturing from a plurality of scholar traditions.