Political science past year questions

UNIT 1
 Politics as art of govt
 Politics as power and struggle for scare resources***********
 Politics as ‘authoritative allocation of values******
 Welfare state
 Politics as compromise and consensus**and conflict resolution**
 Types of power according to joseph s nyre**
 Post modernism
 Critically nature of pol sci
 Welfare state
 Elements of state**
 Difference between state and govt
 Has secularism failed in India? Give reasons to support your answer****
 State is a natural institution
 Component of state
 India as emerging economic power
 Types of power
 Non aligned movement
 Nature of political science
 Politics in reletion with economics

UNIT-2

 Behavioural and post behaviourial revolution in pol sci*****

 philosophical, empirical and the scientific traditions to the study of Politics.*
 political ideologies of Fascism, Anarchism and Religious fundamentalism.
 Devine origin theory of state
 Greek political thought
UNIT -3

 Social contract theory of hobbes,locke and rousseau and general will (The social contract of
Rousseau is Leviathan with its head chopped off” by rousseau) **********
 Concept of sovereignty and factors affecting it in age of globalization and role of MINTIE***
 main features of Liberalism. Also discuss the different types of Liberalism.
 Philosophy of Classical liberalism, Modern liberalism, and Neo- liberalism.**
 Austinian concept of ‘sovereignty’
 de facto and dev jure sovereignty.
 Force theory of origin of state**
 Marxian theory of state
 Neo liberal state
 Hobbes cocept of leviathan
 Plato theory of justice
 Behaviour revolution in pol sci
 Machiavelli as the child of his times
 Various theory of origin of state***
 State is an individual writ large plato view*
 “The state is a natural institution” (Aristotle) **
 The “end justifies the means” (Machiavelli). *
 Rousseau’s theory of General will *
 Politics as a “Authoritative allocation of resources” (David Easton).
 Critically discuss the basic principles of ‘Marxism’. Do you think it is still relevant? give your
arguments in favour and against
 Hobbes despite being an absolute thinker is the greatest individualistic thinkercomment
 Rousseau’s ideas are the synthesis of Hobbes and Locke’s ideas- comment.

UNIT-4

 Features of parliamentary govt*

 Types of democracy
 India facing crisis of governability**
 What are the main features of the constitution (73rd) Amendment Act? What are the
problems faced by the Panchayati Raj Institutions as of now?**
UNIT-5
 Function of legislation**
 For and against bicameral legislation*******
 Challenges before civil servants in age of LPG and bureaucracy*******
 Rise of PMO**
 Function of state in LPG*
 Corruption in india and ways to cure it
 Problem in Indian bureaucracy
 Briefly discuss the problem of Naxalites in India. Suggest some solutions.**
 New public administration
 “India is facing a crisis of governibility”. Comment*
 Rule of law*
 Judicial review*
 democracy and discuss its merits and demerits**
 types of democracy
 middle class activism*
 classical public administration and new public administration ******
 referendum and initiative as techniques of direct legislation
 three main phases of Indian party system since independence
 judicial activism and judicial review in india***
 PMO importance in india***
 Plural executive***
 Process of judicial appointment in india
 Separation of powers
Other confusing questions
 ‘FUNTERNARSA’ factor.******
 Seno-nomics******
 Referendum, Initiative and Recall*****
 main tenets of China's foreign policy. What is chongqing model?**
 Rent raj
 Gross national happiness
 Salwa judum
 Indo pak reletion
 Look east policy and act east policy of NDA govt
 SAARC funtionting
 Mumbai consensus
 Modi 3C
 Indira doctrine, Gujral doctrine and Truman doctrine.
 Terrorism and measures to cure it,wholesale and retail terrorism also Noam chompsky view
on terrorism**
 Civil society upsurge*
 Pizza effect*
 NATO established
 Hindutva Doctrine**
 God gap**
 Sons of soil theory*
 Revanchism**
 Theory of 2 swords as per globalization***
 What is psephology
 What is Greshams law in politics
 Indian nuclear policy
 Helping jueqi
 Gujral doctrine
 Kashmir dipute between india and pak
 Middle kingdom complex of china
 Fish in the water strategy *
 Indian zippies
 Thatcherism
 India vs bharat
 Gross national happiness