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