Semester 2 POL MJ-2 Comparative Government and Politics (तुलनात्मक सरकार और राजनीति)
- Unit I: Understanding Comparative Politics
a. What is comparative politics?
b. Why should we study it? - Unit II: How to study Comparative Politics?
a. What do we mean by approaches to understand comparative politics?
b. Approaches: Political System, Institutionalism and New institutionalism, Political Economy, Political Culture, Political Development (Note: Application of these approaches
should be focus of discussions). - Unit 3: Comparing Political Regimes:
a. Typologies of Regimes
b. Models of democracy
c. How to compare democracies and democratic states?
d. Democratic waves after Second World War; Post-Soviet Union, Arab Springs - Unit 4: Electoral Systems:
a. Theories of representation: What are different types of electoral system? How do they work?
b. Debates emerging from systems of representation: Does election really reflects participation? Election and electoral costs; comparing democratic systems such as India,
USA etc. - Unit 5: Party System:
a. Meaning and Typologies of the Party System
b. Comparing functioning of Party system in India, USA and Britain
c. Political Communication and the Role of Media
Semester 2 POL MJ-3 Political Theory (राजनीतिक सिद्धांत)
- Unit I: Political Questions and Political Theory
a. What are political questions?
b. Nature of Political Theory: Explanatory, Normative and Empirical - Unit II: How to Understand Politics?
a. Liberal Traditions
b. Marxist Traditions
c. Feminist and Post-Modern Approaches - Unit III: Power
a. Theories of Power (Max Weber, Robert Dahl, Michel Foucault) - Unit IV: Theory of Justice
a. Notion of Justice
b. Distributive Justice: John Rawls and Robert Nozick - Unit V: Freedom
a. Notion of Freedom
b. Contemporary Debates - Unit VI: Equality
a. Notion of Equality
b. Equality, Liberty, and Justice Correlation - Unit VII: Citizenship and Democracy
a. Theories of Democracy and Contemporary Debates
b. Theories of Citizenship
