This essay presents a critical review of political science in Peru research over the last decades, and sustains that consequence of an excessive politization within different leftist currents, the landscape is marked by the absence of serious research on fundamental issues, and approaches based on inappropriate
conceptual and theoretical frameworks. This is striking, because if peruvian political reality can be characterized by something, this would be its unpredictability, telling of the autonomy of politics. Currently, the discipline is in better conditions to analyze politics, a necessary development given that almost everything
is still to be done on fundamental political issues.