It has been said that there is no political science in Panama. However, in this article a more complex and rich landscape is registered: It shows how the Law “and political sciences” schools were established, and how the precarious teaching of political science became trapped between jurists. This implies an excessive preoccupation for the constitutional organization of the State. It is also exposed on this article, how a parallel way was develop, with the ascent of sociology and other social sciences, that examine the entire society, and from angles predominantly historic and economic. The researches on both basins are numerous and examine a great amount of topics during the last 25 years. However, the simultaneous end of the military rule and the cold war, brings additional opportunities for academic work. For Panamanian political science, it may be a new, and more solid, starting point.