The purpose of this article is to highlight, grosso modo, the background, context, advances and challenges of political science in Honduras. A priori, one has to acknowledge the meaningful setback of this discipline within the field of social sciences. Such an assertion causes great concern if it is considered that the
juridical, sociological, historical and psychological sciences, – that appear as sciences with a relative high development in Honduras due to a strong academic institutionalization–, have not reached the right levels of consolidation due to the scarce accumulation, production and update of the scientific knowledge.
Nonetheless, during the last five years some initiatives have emerged in the country to propitiate a higher development in political science, which in spite of a certain dispersion of efforts, has generated a renewed interest for this field of the knowledge.