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B.A. Hons Political Science- 2nd Semester

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Course Overview

Compulsory Core Courses (DSC)

  1. DSC-4: Perspectives on Public Administration
  2. Unit I: Public Administration as a Discipline
  3. Ancient Roots of Public Administration: Perspectives from India (Kautilya’s Arthashastra)
  4. Modern PA: An overview of the theoretical journey
  5. Principles of Public Administration
  6. Theorising Public Administration
  7. Unit II: Mainstream/ Traditional Theoretical Perspectives
  8. Scientific management (F.W.Taylor)
  9. Ideal-type bureaucracy (Max Weber)
  10. Human relations theory (Elton Mayo)
  11. Rational decision-making (Herbert Simon)
  12. Ecological approach (Fred Riggs)
  13. Unit III: Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives
  14. New Public Management, New Public Service
  15. Multiple Perspectives on Governance: Good Governance, Collaborative Governance, Network Governance, Digital Governance
  16. Unit IV: Gender Perspectives on Public Administration
  17. Gender and Governance
  18. Gender sensitivity and participation in administration
  19. DSC-5: Methods and Approaches in Comparative Political Analysis
  20. Unit I: Understanding Comparative Politics
  21. Nature and scope
  22. Why Compare
  23. Understanding Comparative Method: How to compare countries: large n, small n, single countries studies
  24. Going beyond Eurocentrism
  25. Unit II: Approaches to Studying Comparative Politics: Political System, Structural functional analysis
  26. Unit III: Approaches to Studying Comparative Politics: Traditional and Neo-Institutionalisms
  27. Historical Institutionalism
  28. Rational Choice Theory
  29. Sociological Institutionalism
  30. Unit IV: Approaches to Studying Comparative Politics: Political Culture
  31. Civic Culture (Sydney Verba)
  32. Subculture (Dennis Kavanagh)
  33. Hegemony (Antonio Gramsci)
  34. Post materialism (Ronald Inglehart)
  35. Social capital (R. Putnam)
  36. Unit V: Approaches to Studying Comparative Politics: Political Economy
  37. Underdevelopment
  38. Dependency
  39. Modernisation
  40. World Systems Theory
  41. Unit VI: Gendering Comparative Politics
  42. The Gender Lacuna in Comparative Politics
  43. Political Representation: Women in Government and Politics
  44. DSC-6: Introduction to International Relations: Theories, Concepts and Debates
  45. Unit I: What is IR and, its Contested Origins
  46. What is IR
  47. Reading the Big Bangs
  48. Bringing in De-colonial Accounts
  49. Understanding the genealogy of IR discipline in India
  50. Unit II: Theories of IR
  51. Introduction to IR Theories
  52. Realpolitik (Kautilya)/ Realism/ Neo-Realism
  53. Liberalism/ Neo-liberalism
  54. Marxism/ Neo-Marxism
  55. Feminism
  56. Constructivism
  57. Unit III: Concepts
  58. Power
  59. Sovereignty
  60. Empire
  61. International Order
  62. Unit IV: Exploring the Future Trajectories
  63. Global IR
  64. A Relational Turn?

Original price was: ₹2,500.00.Current price is: ₹650.00.
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