Political Science

Entrance syllabus- GU
 Political Theory
• Approaches of Political Science: Traditional Approaches: Philosophical/
Normative, Historical, Institutional, Legal
• Contemporary Approaches: Empirical, Behavioural & Post-Behavioural
• Political Theory- Decline and resurgence
• State: theories of origin and functions
• Sovereignty: Monistic and pluralist
• Concepts: Liberty, Equality, Justice, Rights, Citizenship
• Democracy: meaning, types, theories: Elitist, Deliberative, participation
• Development and its alternative perspectives
• Ideologies: Liberalism, Marxism, Anarchism, Conservatism, Nationalism,
Feminism, Ecologism, Postmodernism, Multiculturalism, end of ideology
 Western Political Thinkers: Plato, Aristotle,
Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel,
Kant, Bentham, Mill, Green, Laski, Marx, Lenin,
Mao, H. Arendt, Gramsci, Rawls
 Indian Political Thinkers: Kautilya, Barani, Abul
Fazal, Kabir, Rammohan Roy, Pandita Ramabai,
Vivekananda, Tagore, M.K. Gandhi, V.D. Savarkar,
Aurobindo, M.N. Roy, Nehru, Ambedkar, Ram
Manohar Lohia, Jaya Prakash Narayan
 International Relations
• Theories: Liberalism & Neoliberalism, Classical Realism
& Neo-Realism, System theory, World system
theory/Marxist Approach/ Dependency
• Cold War: Different Phases
• Collapse of the USSR and Post-Cold War Developments
• UNO, IMF, WB, WTO
• NAM, SAARC, ASEAN, EU
• Disarmament, Human Security, Climate Change
• India’s foreign policy
 Public Administration
• Public Administration meaning, nature, scope, Evolution of PA.
Private & Public administration.
• THEORIES: Scientific management (F.W. Taylor), Administrative
Management (Gullick, Urwick and Fayol), Bureaucratic theory
(Max Weber), Human relations theory (Elton Mayo), Rational
decision-making (Herbert Simon), Ecological approach (Fred
Riggs)
• NPA, NPM, Good Governance, Development Administration
• Right to Information Act, Lokpal, Lokayukta, Public Service
Commission
• Financial administration: Budget
 Comparative Politics
• Eurocentrism and Going beyond Eurocentrism
• Approaches/ Models: System theory, structural
functional theory, Political culture, institutionalism,
neo-institutionalism
• Political parties
• Electoral system
• Types of regimes
• A comparative study of constitutional develop-ments:
UK, USA, Switzerland
 Indian Government and Politics
• History: Govt. of India Act 1919, 1935
• Preamble
• Constituent Assembly
• F.R., F.D., D.P.S.P.
• Executive: President, Vice-President, P.M., Governor, C.M.
• Legislature: Parliament, State Government, Local Govt.
• Judiciary: Supreme and High Court
• Amendments and important judgement
• Federal Features and Provisions, 6th Schedule
• Election, Voting and party system
 Politics in North East India
• Anti-colonial revolts and nationality question
• Reorganization of North East India and emergence
of separate states
• Assam movement, Bodo movement
• Rise of regionalism
• Rise of insurgency
• Formation of Autonomous Councils:Rabha & Mising
• Citizenship debate over NRC and CAA