Political Science & International Relations Optional Notes for OPSC (Premium)

1. Approaches to the study of political theory

• historical,
• normative and
• empirical.

2. Theories of state

• Liberal
• Marxist
• Post-colonial.

3. State Sovereignty

• Monistic and Pluralistic theories;
• globalisation and the State.

4. Democracy

• Democratic theory
  • classical and
  • contemporary

5. Human Rights

• Theories of Human Rights;
• Theories of Justice,
• Equality and
• Revolution,
• Political obligation;

6. Theories of Political Culture and Political Economy.

7. Political Ideologies

• Nature of Ideology;
• Liberalism,
• Socialism,
• Marxism,
• Fascism and
• Gandhism.

8. Theories of Power and Hegemony

• Pareto,
• Mosca,
• Mitchels,
• C. Wright Mills,
• Weber and
• Gramsci.

9. Indian Political Thought

• Manu,
• Kautilya,
• M.N. Roy,
• Gandhi and
• Ambedkar

10. Western Political Thought

• Plato,
• Aristotle,
• Machiavelli,
• Hobbes,
• Locke,
• Rousseau,
• J S Mill,
• Hegel and Marx,
• Lenin, and
• Gramsci
• Mao Zedong.