SHUBHRA RANJAN IAS STUDY PVT LTD


ONLINE PSIR ANSWER WRITING SKILL DEVELOPMENT CUM TEST

SERIES 2017

TEST 4: POLITICAL THEORY AND POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES 

ALL QUESTIONS ARE COMPULSORY

MAX MARKS: 120 MAX TIME: 1.5 hours

1) "Political theory is the most appropriate term to employ in designating

that intellectual tradition which affirms the possibility of transcending the
sphere of immediate practical concerns and "viewing" man's societal
existence from a critical perspective."- Germino. Critically Examine.

2) Examine the reasons why behaviouralism called for an end to

normative theory. Give reasons for the rise of postbehaviouralism.

3) In what way does postmodernism constitute a rejection of modernism?

Why do the postmodernists argue that the meaning of a 'text' is never
grounded or stable and hence one can find multiple meanings or truths?

4) How has anti rationalism shaped fascist ideology? Was fascism merely a
product of specific historical circumstances of the inter war period?

5) Why disquisition between sex and gender has been so important to

feminist analysis? Are the differences within feminism more than the
similarities?

6) Is liberal democracy contradiction in terms? Do you think liberal

democracy is a final solution to the problem of political organisation?

7) "Socialism is dead, and it largely the dynamics unleashed by

globalisation that has brought its demise." Do you think discussion of
socialism in the age of globalisation is pointless?

8) Write debates on the nature of ideology and why postmodernists

proclaim the death of meta narratives?

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