B.A. Hons Political Science- 2nd Semester

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?