Political Science and International Relations Syllabus for OPSC
OPSC SYLLABUS POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS PAPER I Section-A 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, Machiavell...