Sentence:  For close to generation now, capitalist political scientists have been explaining away the structural crisis of underdevelopment as merely transitory conditions (Apolitical instability due either to the political "immaturity" of the post-colonial societies or to the unsettled legitimacy of the new independent states. This is <WSD>disciplinist</WSD> distortion, and it has led to the consequent ignorance among social scientists of the fundamental crisis of underdevelopment. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A disciplinarian; one who stresses obedience to authority.