(1) T(6th Sm.)-Political Sc.

-H/CC-13/CBCS

2021
POLITICAL SCIENCE — HONOURS
Paper : CC-13
(Public Administration : Concepts and Perspectives)
Full Marks : 65

Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words

as far as practicable.

Administrative Behaviour

Understanding Public Policy

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(SALA)

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1. Answer the following questions (each in a single sentence) : 1×15

(a) What is the meaning of ‘public’ in Public Administration?
(b) How is Political Science related to Public Administration?
(c) Name any two pioneers of socialist management.
(d) Why is Woodrow Wilson regarded as a pioneer in Public Administration?
(e) What is ‘Span of Control’?
(f) Mention two disadvantages of decentralization.
(g) Who initiated the concept of ‘bounded rationality’?
(h) In which university was the first Minnowbrook Conference held?
(i) What is Weber’s idea of the Traditional Authority?
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(j) What is ‘Line and Staff’?

(k) Who wrote Administrative Behaviour?
(l) Mention any two characteristics of organizational leadership.
(m) Mention one major model of public policy.
(n) Write one feature of New Public Administration.
(o) Who wrote Understanding Public Policy?

Module - 1

2. Answer any one question (within 100 words) : 10×1

(a) Discuss the relevance of Development Administration in the Indian context.
(b) What are the advantages and disadvantages of e-governance?

3. Answer any one question (within 500 words) : 15×1

(a) Analyse the contribution of Comparative Public Administration to the study of Public Administration.
(b) Explain the major impact of Liberalization and Privatization on Public Administration.

Module - 2

4. Answer any one question (within 100 words) : 10×1

(a) Do you think that Marx was distrustful of bureaucracy? Give reasons for your answer.
(b) Explain the role of the SALA model in analysing the administration in developing countries.

5. Answer any one question (within 500 words) : 15×1

(a) Discuss, with examples, why communication and control are important in the process of
decision-making.
(b) “The strength of Public Administration lies in investigating public policy”. Explain the
statement.
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2021
POLITICAL SCIENCE — HONOURS
Paper : CC-14
(Administration and Public Policy in India)
Full Marks : 65

Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words

as far as practicable.

×
(ICS)

(PMO)

MGNREGA

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1. Answer the following questions (each in a single word or sentence) : 1×15

(a) When was the ‘Indian Civil Service’ (ICS) terminated?
(b) Who is the Head of the State Secretariat?
(c) Mention two functions of the PMO.
(d) What is ‘grass roots level Planning’?
(e) Name one training institute for the Indian Civil Servants.
(f) What is ‘Budget’?
(g) What is Public Accounts Committee?
(h) How many Wards form the Kolkata Municipal Corporation?
(i) In which Article of the Constitution the ideas and objectives of the Panchayati Raj are incorporated?
(j) When was NITI Aayog formed?
(k) What is Lokayukta?
(l) What is the Right to Information Act?
(m) What is the main objective of MGNREGA?
(n) What is Borough Committee?
(o) What is the main objective of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan?
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Module - 1
2. Answer any one question (within 100 words) : 10×1
(a) Write in brief on the continuity and change in the Indian administration.
(b) Write a note on the composition and functions of the Central Secretariat.

3. Answer any one question (within 500 words) :

(a) What is Public Service? Discuss the functions and importance of the Union Public Service
Commission. 3+12
(b) Explain the role of the District Magistrate in the Indian administration. 15

Module - 2
4. Answer any one question (within 100 words) : 10×1
(a) Analyse the importance of Lokpal in the Indian administration.
(b) Briefly discuss the nature of local government on the basis of the 73rd and 74th Amendment Acts
of the Constitution of India.

5. Answer any one question (within 500 words) : 15×1

(a) Evaluate the role of the Planning Commission in the development process of India.
(b) Write an essay on the National Rural Health Mission.
 (1) T(6th Sm.)-Political Sc.-H/(DSE-A-3)/CBCS

2021
POLITICAL SCIENCE — HONOURS
Paper : DSE-A-3
(Public Policy in India)
Full Marks : 65

Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words

as far as practicable.

(channel)

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1. Answer the following questions (each within one sentence) : 1×15
(a) What is ‘policy cycle’?
(b) Why is goal-orientation important in public policy?
(c) Mention two features of a ‘good policy’.
(d) What do you mean by informal policy channels?
(e) Mention one distributive policy.
(f) Name one regulatory policy.
(g) How are interest groups linked to the policy process?
(h) What is Nehruvian State?
(i) When was the first industrial policy introduced in India?
(j) Mention one public policy adopted by the Fifth Five Year Plan.
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(k) Name one poverty eradication programme.

(l) What do you understand by ‘roll back of the State’?
(m) When was NITI Aayog established?
(n) Name any one social movement demanding environmental protection policy.
(o) Mention any two goals of the New Education Policy (2020).

Module - 1

2. Answer any one question (within 100 words) : 10×1

(a) “Public policy analysis and politics are inseparable.” Explain the statement.
(b) Discuss how mass media plays an important role in the public policy sphere.

3. Answer any one question (within 500 words) :

(a) What is public policy analysis? Describe the process of policy analysis. 5+10
(b) Discuss public policy analysis in the context of the welfare theory of State. 15

Module - 2

4. Answer any one question (within 100 words) : 10×1

(a) Explain why the adoption of anti-poverty policies is important for India.
(b) Discuss the Disinvestment policy adopted in India since 1991.

5. Answer any one question (within 500 words) : 15×1

(a) Do you think that social movements can play a special role in formulating people-oriented policies?
Argue your case.
(b) Explain the impact of Liberalization on the power of policy formulation of the Indian State.
 (1) T(6th Sm.)-Political Sc.-H/(DSE-B-3)/CBCS

2021
POLITICAL SCIENCE — HONOURS
Paper : DSE-B-3
(Citizenship in a Globalising World)
Full Marks : 65

Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words

as far as practicable.

Citizenship and Social Class

GCED-
“Citizens are those who rule and are ruled by turns”

(Cosmopolitanism)

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1. Answer the following questions (each in a single sentence) : 1×15

(a) In which book Aristotle for the first time developed the theory of Citizenship?
(b) Mention any two elements of Global Citizenship.
(c) When did the concept of citizenship emerge?
(d) Mention any two types of Citizenship.
(e) Mention one difference between national citizenship and global citizenship.
(f) Who is the author of Citizenship and Social Class?
(g) Discuss any two rights of a citizen mentioned in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.
(h) What is Gendered Citizenship?
(i) What is the full form of GCED?
(j) Who said, “Citizens are those who rule and are ruled by turns”?
(k) Name one philosopher supporting voting rights of women as citizen.
(l) Who propounded the notion of Cosmopolitanism?
(m) Write the difference between ‘illegal immigrant’ and ‘refugee’?
(n) Define Quasi Citizenship.
(o) Which day is celebrated as World Citizen Day?
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Module - 1
2. Answer any one question (within 100 words) : 10×1
(a) Explain how globalization has affected the concept of citizenship.
(b) Briefly explain the political theory of global citizenship.

3. Answer any one question (within 500 words) : 15×1

(a) Explain the Republican idea of citizenship.
(b) Discuss T.H. Marshall’s theory of citizenship.

Module - 2
4. Answer any one question (within 100 words) : 10×1
(a) Discuss the obstacles to cosmopolitan citizenship.
(b) Briefly discuss the concept of Active Citizen Rights in global governance.

5. Answer any one question (within 500 words) : 15×1

(a) Write a note on diversity of citizenship in global era.
(b) Explore the idea of citizenship beyond the State in context of global justice.