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B.A. B.L. (Hons.)/ B.A. LL.B. (Hons.)/B.Com. B.L. (Hons.) DEGREE

(SEMESTER) EXAMINATIONS, JANUARY 2021.

(For the candidates admitted from 2011 to 2019)

First Year — Second Semester

POLITICAL SCIENCE – I (POLITICAL THEORY)

Time : 2 12 hours Maximum : 70 marks

PART A — (2 × 12 = 24 marks)

Answer TWO of the following in about 500 words each.

1. Define Political Science and discuss its scope.

2. Examine the Social contract theory of Hobbes.

3. Analyse Aristotle’s classification of Governments.

PART B — (2  7 = 14 marks)

Answer TWO of the following in about 300 words each.

4. Discuss the role of Political Parties in Democratic Countries.

5. Examine the rights and duties of citizens.

6. Analyse the Liberal pragmatist Political theory.

PART C — (5  4 = 20 marks)
7. Write short notes on FIVE of the following :
(a) Relation between Political Science and Economics.
(b) Structural and Functional Analysis.
(c) State and Nation.
(d) Global citizenship.
(e) Fascism.
(f) Feminism.
(g) Plural executive.

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 PART D — (6  2 = 12 marks)

8. Answer SIX of the following very briefly :

(a) Population
(b) Internal Sovereignty
(c) Contemporary Islamic Political thought
(d) Oligarchy
(e) Imperialism
(f) John Austin
(g) Political Science and Jurisprudence
(h) Post-Behaviouralism

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