ABSTRACT
"Normal" political science has been found wanting in explanatory power as exemplified by its inability to explain the increasing development of underdevelopment. The alarming proportions of the gap between underdeveloped and developed nation-states cannot be "explained away" in terms of the various domestic imbalances, for example, and the lack of entrepreneurial sectors. An alternative means of breaking the closed loop from within the structure of "normal" political science as the magnitude of the distance between political reality and model building increases implies the transformation of the entire field of study. An alternative to "normal" political science has come into being in Latin America as a result of United States stimuli, that is, the misperception by North American scientists of what constitutes the unique Latin American reality. The noticeably permeable subservient nationstate is made increasingly more vulnerable to penetration and control by the metropole as a result of the international dislocations caused by war and depression.
