Syllabus

Course Titles With Codes

SYLLABUS

 II SEMESTER: 1-BAPOLITICAL SCIENCE, 2020-21

 PAPER-II (CORE): POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS

(CONCEPTS, THE ORIESAND INSTITUTIONS) 

Syllabus: - Skill development Employability Entrepreneurship

Unit-1: Constitutionalism- 20 Hrs

1. The Purpose of Constitutional law, Theory of Separation of Powers

2. Structural Forms of the Modern State: Basic features of Parliamentary and

Presidential forms of Government.

Unit-2: Territorial Division of Authority of the Modern State - 17 Hrs

1. Basic features of Federal form of Government

2. Basic features of Unitary form of Government

Unit-3: Institutional forms of the Modern State- 15 HRS

1. Democracy: Basic features of Classical (Direct Democracy) and Modern

Representative Democracy

2. Models of Democracy: Procedural Democracy (Conditions for success of

Democracy)

Unit-4: Judiciary and Democratic State- 20 Hrs

1. The nature, role and functions of the Judiciary

2. Judicial Review: Debates on the Supremacy of legislature or Judiciary in the

protection of Constitutional law.

IVSEMESTER: 2-BA-POLITICAL SCIENCE, 2020-21

INDIAN POLITICAL PROCESS 

Syllabus: - Skill development Employability Entrepreneurship

Unit-1: Approaches to Study the Political Processes in India- 20 Hrs

a. Theory of Modernization: Transition from Tradition to Modernity

b. Marxian Approach: Transition from pre-capitalism to capitalism

Unit-2: Social Structure and Democratic Process- 17 Hrs

1. Transition of Caste System: From Hierarchy to Identity: Role of Agency

2. Politicization of Intermediate and Dalit Caste Communities

3. Evolution of Modernity in India

Unit-3: Religion and Politics- 18 Hrs

1. Competing Communalisms: Majoritarion and Minoritarion

2. Debates on Secularism; Role of the State towards religion

Unit-4: Party and Electoral Processes in India- 20 Hrs

1. Electoral Trends of the lock Sabha from 1952 to 2014: From the One-

Party Congress System to Multi Party Coalitions

2. Determinants of Voting Behavior in India; Caste, Class, Patronage, Money etc.

3. Evolution of Party System in India: The Ideology and Social bases of

major Political Parties: INC, BJP, CPM, DMK, BSP, TDP.