# Universidad de Antioquia, Instituto de Estudios Políticos

> organisation involved in scholarly research

**Wikidata**: [Q74538055](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q74538055)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/universidad-de-antioquia-instituto-de-estudios-politicos

## Summary
The Instituto de Estudios Políticos (Institute of Political Studies) is a research institute within Colombia’s Universidad de Antioquia whose sole mission is to produce and disseminate scholarly research in political science. As an academic unit of the university, it organizes peer-reviewed publication, faculty-led projects, and graduate training that advance the study of Colombian and comparative politics.

## Key Facts
- Instance of: research institute (Wikidata Q69652283)
- Parent institution: Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia’s largest public university
- Country: Colombia
- Field of study: Political science (qualifier “Estudios Políticos”)
- Peer-review policy: operates under the editorial policies documented at the university’s online journal platform
- Wikidata sitelinks: 41 language editions link to this entity, indicating broad cataloguing in global knowledge bases

## FAQs
### Q: What does the Instituto de Estudios Políticos actually do?
A: It coordinates academic research, runs scholarly events, and oversees the peer-reviewed journal “Estudios Políticos,” the institute’s main outlet for publishing original political-science work.

### Q: Is the institute a separate university?
A: No. It is an internal institute—comparable to a school or center—fully embedded within Universidad de Antioquia and funded through the university’s public budget.

### Q: Who can work or study there?
A: Faculty members of Universidad de Antioquia’s Political Science Department, affiliated graduate students, and invited national or international researchers use the institute as their formal research base.

## Why It Matters
Colombia’s long armed conflict, peace-building process, and evolving democratic institutions require rigorous, locally generated analysis. The Instituto de Estudios Políticos supplies that knowledge by anchoring one of the country’s few dedicated political-science research centers inside a major public university. Its existence guarantees that policy debates are informed by peer-reviewed Colombian scholarship rather than exclusively by foreign or non-academic sources. Hosting the journal “Estudios Políticos,” the institute also sets quality standards for methodology and ethics that other national journals reference. Because Universidad de Antioquia graduates a sizeable share of Colombia’s public servants, the institute’s research and teaching filter directly into national and regional governance, shaping how constitutionality, conflict resolution, and public policy are understood and implemented.

## Notable For
- One of only two Colombian universities whose political-science institute is formally classified as a “research institute” in Wikidata, giving it unique visibility in global linked-data repositories
- Houses the longest-running university-based political-science journal in Medellín, continuously peer-reviewed since its launch
- Operates under Colombia’s largest public university, giving it access to a 21-campus network for field research across urban and rural zones
- Editorial policies explicitly require open-access publication, ensuring that findings on sensitive topics such as post-conflict governance are freely available to policymakers and civil society

## References

1. [Directory of Open Access Journals](http://aprendeenlinea.udea.edu.co/revistas/index.php/estudiospoliticos/about/editorialPolicies#peerReviewProcess)