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Western Political Thought
No. | Western Political Thought – Important Scholars |
1. | Plato |
2. | Aristotle |
3. | Machiavelli |
4. | Thomas Hobbes |
5. | John Locke |
6. | Hegel |
7. | Jean Jacques Rousseau |
8. | J.S Mill |
9. | Karl Marx |
10. | Antonio Gramsci |
11. | Mary Wollstonecraft |
12. | John Rawls |
13. | Frantz Fanon |
14. | Hannah Ardent |
15. | Mao Zedong |
16. | Confucius |
Political Concepts
Political Traditions/Ideologies
No. | Political Theory |
1. | Liberalism |
2. | Conservatism |
3. | Socialism |
4. | Marxism |
5. | Feminism |
6. | Ecologism |
7. | Multiculturalism |
8. | Postmodernism |
Indian Polity
Indian Political Thought
No. | Indian Political Thought |
1. | Aggna Sutta |
2. | Dharmashastra |
3. | Kautilya |
4. | Kabir |
5. | Ziauddin Barani |
6 | Swami Vivekananda |
7. | Pandita Ramabai |
8. | Rabindranath Tagore |
9. | Jawaharlal Nehru |
10. | Periyar |
11. | M.N. Roy |
12. | B.R. Ambedkar |
13. | Iqbal Muhammad |
14. | Mahatma Gandhi |
15. | Aurobindo |
16. | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
17. | V.D. Sarvarkar |
18. | Deendayal Upadhyaya |
19. | Ram Manohar Lohia |
20. | J.P Narayan |
Public Administration
No. | Public Administration |
1. | * Public Administration: Nature, Scope, and Evolution * Public and Private Administration: Differences and Similarities |
2 | Theories of Public Administration * Classical Organization Theory by Henry Fayol * Scientific Management Theory by F.W Taylor * Ideal Type Bureaucracy by Max Weber * Human Relations Theory by Elton Mayo * Decision Making Theory by Herbert Simon * System theory by David Easton * Bargaining Approach by Charles Lindblom * Ecological Approach by Fred Riggs |
3 | Motivation Theories * Hierarchy of Needs or Motivation Theory by Abraham Maslow * Motivation-Hygiene Theory or Two Factor theory by Frederick Herzberg |
4 | Leadership Theories * T- Group Model by Chris Argyris |
5 | Organizational Communication Theories |
6 | Other Important Theories: |
Comparative Politics
No. | Comparative Politics |
1. | Comparative Politics: Its Meaning and Evolution |
2 | Approaches of Comparative Politics * Traditional Approaches of Comparative Politics Modern Approaches * Behavioural Approach to Comparative Politics * Institutional and New Institutional Approach * Structural Functional Approach by Gabriel Almond * Political Culture Approach by Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba |
3 | Nation-States |
4 | Colonization and Decolonizationn |
5 | Forms and Theories of Nationalismm |
6 | Development Theories |
7 | Constitutionalismm * Constitutionalism: Comparative study of Constitutions around the world |
8 | Theory of Elites |
9 | Actors and Processes * Political Parties and Party System * Civil Society, NGOs and Interest Groups |
Governance and Public Policy
No. | Governance and Public Policy |
1 | * Concept of Good Governance |
2 | Public Policy in India |
3 | Accountability and Efficiency |
4 | Institutional Mechanisms for Good – Governance * Right to Information Act 2005 |
International Relations
No. | International Relations |
1. | Approaches to the study of IR * Feminist Perspectives in International Relations * Post Modernism in International Relations * Critical International Theory |
2. | Concepts of IR |
3. | International War Agreements |
4. | Specialized Agencies within UN: |
5. | Political Economy of IR * Bretton Woods System |
6. | Important Organizations * SAARC |
7. | Contemporary Challenges |
Foreign Policy of India
No. | Foreign Policy of India |
1. | Foreign Policy of India |
2. | Cold War Politics |
3. | Non-Alignment Movement |
4. | India’s Nuclear Policy |
5. | India’s Relations with Major Powers * India – China Relations |
6. | India’s engagement with multipolar world * BIMSTEC |
Political Processes in India
No. | Political Process in India |
1. | State, Economy, and Development |
2. | |
3. | |
4. | * Caste Based Identity Politics * Tribal Politics and Movements |
5. | Regionalization of Indian Politics |
6. | |
7. | * Reorganization of States |