Course Overview
Compulsory Core Courses (DSC)
- DSC-4: Perspectives on Public Administration
- Unit I: Public Administration as a Discipline
- Ancient Roots of Public Administration: Perspectives from India (Kautilya’s Arthashastra)
- Modern PA: An overview of the theoretical journey
- Principles of Public Administration
- Theorising Public Administration
- Unit II: Mainstream/ Traditional Theoretical Perspectives
- Scientific management (F.W.Taylor)
- Ideal-type bureaucracy (Max Weber)
- Human relations theory (Elton Mayo)
- Rational decision-making (Herbert Simon)
- Ecological approach (Fred Riggs)
- Unit III: Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives
- New Public Management, New Public Service
- Multiple Perspectives on Governance: Good Governance, Collaborative Governance, Network Governance, Digital Governance
- Unit IV: Gender Perspectives on Public Administration
- Gender and Governance
- Gender sensitivity and participation in administration
- DSC-5: Methods and Approaches in Comparative Political Analysis
- Unit I: Understanding Comparative Politics
- Nature and scope
- Why Compare
- Understanding Comparative Method: How to compare countries: large n, small n, single countries studies
- Going beyond Eurocentrism
- Unit II: Approaches to Studying Comparative Politics: Political System, Structural functional analysis
- Unit III: Approaches to Studying Comparative Politics: Traditional and Neo-Institutionalisms
- Historical Institutionalism
- Rational Choice Theory
- Sociological Institutionalism
- Unit IV: Approaches to Studying Comparative Politics: Political Culture
- Civic Culture (Sydney Verba)
- Subculture (Dennis Kavanagh)
- Hegemony (Antonio Gramsci)
- Post materialism (Ronald Inglehart)
- Social capital (R. Putnam)
- Unit V: Approaches to Studying Comparative Politics: Political Economy
- Underdevelopment
- Dependency
- Modernisation
- World Systems Theory
- Unit VI: Gendering Comparative Politics
- The Gender Lacuna in Comparative Politics
- Political Representation: Women in Government and Politics
- DSC-6: Introduction to International Relations: Theories, Concepts and Debates
- Unit I: What is IR and, its Contested Origins
- What is IR
- Reading the Big Bangs
- Bringing in De-colonial Accounts
- Understanding the genealogy of IR discipline in India
- Unit II: Theories of IR
- Introduction to IR Theories
- Realpolitik (Kautilya)/ Realism/ Neo-Realism
- Liberalism/ Neo-liberalism
- Marxism/ Neo-Marxism
- Feminism
- Constructivism
- Unit III: Concepts
- Power
- Sovereignty
- Empire
- International Order
- Unit IV: Exploring the Future Trajectories
- Global IR
- A Relational Turn?