The site of Yaxuná is the urban center of a polity occupied from the Late Preclassic through the Terminal Classic period in north-central Yucatán. Throughout the polity’s existence, it was governed by various regimes that employed different strategies to exercise power over the area residents. These strategies relied on circulations of goods, ideas, and people between the seat of the ruling regime and the polity’s followers throughout the area. Throughout its long history of occupation, the Yaxuná polity occupied different places on a spectrum of political integration, depending on the type of regime, its authority, and the strength and number of circulations related to political imaginary. The intensity of political integration can be seen through the impact of transformative events on the Yaxuná polity. These events, which targeted the various ruling regimes, had different effects on the polity’s followers based on the strength and number of circulations between leaders and followers throughout the area and at different time periods. By identifying archaeological correlates for distinguishing leaders and followers, identifying transformative events, and mapping circulations of people, goods, and ideas, an analysis of political integration at Yaxuná is possible. Data collected over 30 years throughout the Yaxuná area gives insight into the lives of the leaders based in the site center and their followers. This data included excavations at Yaxuná by two archaeological projects; regional survey, surface collection, and excavations; and lidar coverage. The type of regime, population and settlement of the hinterlands, and the proximity of other urban centers affected the political integration of the Yaxuná polity. The Terminal Classic period demonstrated the greatest extent of political integration, followed by the Preclassic, the Early Classic, and finally the Late Classic. Through survey, mapping, and excavations of the areas between natural communities, new insight into political integration is possible. This dissertation analyzes the available data and interpretations to evaluate the political integration of the Yaxuná polity; synthesizes the culture history of Yaxuná through combining data, analysis, and interpretation from the Selz Project and PIPCY; and offers insight into the advantages and disadvantages to lidar as a survey tool in the Central Yucatán area.