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MORAES, JUAN ANDRÉS. From Uncomfortable Pluralism to the Comfort of Pluralism: A Reply to Adolfo Garcé and Cecilia Rocha's State of Political Science in Uruguay Politica. Rev. cienc. polít. (Santiago) [online]. 2015, vol.35, n.3, pp.629-636. ISSN 0718-090X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-090X2015000300008.

This note refutes some of the arguments published by Adolfo Garcé and Cecilia Rocha's article entitled "Political Science in Uruguay: Between Professionalization, "Partidización" and the Specter of 'Perestroika Movement'" (Vol. 35 (1)). Because it is largely empirically grounded, I do not reject most of the descriptive and analytic side of the paper. Instead, my note criticizes a set of final comments without empirical evidence, value-driven and prejudiced regarding a minority of Uruguayan scholars. This minority that holds and promotes some of the theoretical and methodological standards of the discipline is criticized for its "dominant discourse". Ironically, the Uruguayan Perestroika not only could rise from this minority with scarce institutional power, but would promote theoretical and methodological standards.

Palabras clave : Political science; Uruguay; positivism; pluralism.

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