Political science Syllabus in mains....

Political Science Syllabus for Main Examination:

Section-A

1. Political Science : 
Nature & scope of the discipline, relationship with allied disciplines like History, Economics, Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology. 

2. Meaning of Politics :

Approaches to the study of Politics. 

3. Key Concepts :
State, Soceity, Sovereignty, Power, Citizenship, Nation, Global order and Imperialism. 

4. Political Ideas : 
Rights, Liberty, Equality, Justice, Rule of Law. Civil Soceity Swaraj, Revolution, Democratic Participation. 

5. Democracy :
Meaning and Theories of Democracy, Electoral system, Forms of Representation & Participation, Political accountability. 

6. Political Ideologies : 
Liberalism, Neoliberalism, Marxism, Socialism, Fascism, Gandhism. 

7. Party System and Political Process : 
Therories of Party System, National and regional parties, Political Parties in the Third World. Patterns of coalition politics, interest and pressure groups. 

8. Forms of Government :
Parliamentary and Presidential. Federal & unitary Modes of decentralisation. 

9. Bureaucracy Concept : 
Theories, Weber and critiques of Bureaucracy. 

10. Theories of Development : 
Meaning and various approaches. Concept and Theories of underdevelopment Debates in the Third World. 

11. Social Movements :
Meaning, Theories & Forms, Role of Environmental Feminist Peasant & workers movements, Role of Non Government organisation. 
12. Nationalism and Internationalism :

13. Major theories of International relations :
Realist Marxist, Systems & Decision making & Game theory. 

14. State & the Global order :                                                                                                 Neo-Liberalism, globalisation, structural adjustment, regional economic integration, Nature and Impact of globalisation. 

Section-B
Indian Government and politics

1. Approaches to the study of Governments :
Comparative historical, legal institutional, political economy and political sociology, approaches. 

2. Classification of Political systems :
Democratic and Authoritarian, characteristics of Political systems in the third world. 

3. Typologies of constitutions :                                                                                                                Basic features of these constitutions & governments : including U.K., USA. France, Germany, China, and South Africa. 

4. Constitutional development : 
in India during British Rule-A historical perspective.

 
5. Constituent Assembly : 
philosophical and socio-economic dimensions. Salient features of the Indian Constitution. 

6. Nature of Indian federalism :
Centre-state relations, legislative, administrative, financial and political; politics of regional move and National Integration. 

7. Fundamental Rights :
Constitutional provisions and political dynamics. Judicial Interpretations and socio political realities; Fundamental Duties. 

8. The Union Executive :
President, Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers, Constitutional provisions & framework and political trends. 

9. Parliament :
Powers and functions of the Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha; Parliamentary Committees; Functioning of the Parliamentary system in India. 

10. The Judiciary :

The Supreme Court , Judicial Review Judicial Activism, Public Intrest Litigation; Judicial Reforms. 

11. The State Executive :
Governor, Chief Minister and the Council of Ministers; Constitutional Provisions and Political trends. 

12. Indian Party System :
Evolution and Contemporay trends; coalition government at the Centre and States, pressure groups in Indian politics. 

13. The interaction of Government & Scientific & Technology business :
Previous and now their inter relationship and changing roles in Society, Elites, Role of Pressure groups class and voluntary associations in society. 

14. Local Government & Politics :
Panchayti Raj and Municipal Government, structure power & functions. Political realities, significance of 73rd and 74th Amendements, role of women in Panchayats. 

15. Bureaucracy and Development :

 Post-colonial India; its changing role in the context of liberatis after, bureauratic Accountability. 

16. Challenges to Indian Democracy :

a) Communalism Regionalism violence, criminalisation and corruption. 
b) Regional disparities, environmental degradation, illiteracy, Mass Poverty, Population, growth, caste oppressions and socio economic inequalities among backward classes.