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Unit I POLITICAL THEORY AND IDEOLOGIES
- Concepts: State, Sovereignty, Political Obligation
- Law, Power, Citizenship
- Human Rights, Liberty, Equality
- Property, Justice, Common Good, Democracy and Development.
- Approaches: Traditional, Behavioural, Post Behavioural
- Structural-Functional, Communication and Decision Making.
- Ideologies: Liberalism, Neo-Liberalism, Realism, Conservatism,
- Post – Colonialism – Marxism – Neo-Marxism
- Socialism – Fascism – Anarchism
- Feminism – Ecologism
- Multi-Culturalism –Environmentalism.
Unit II WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT
- Ancient: Socrates
- Plato
- Aristotle.
- Medieval: St Augustine
- St Thomas Aquinas
- Niccole Machiavelli.
- Modern / Post Modern: Hobbes-Locke
- Rousseau
- John Stuart Mill
- Karl Marx
- Gramsci
- John Rawls.
Unit III INDIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT
- Evolution & Characteristics
- Vedic Polity – Concept of Dharma / Artha / Kama.
- Ancient Thinkers: Manu
- Kautilya
- Thiruvalluvar
- Mohammad Iqbal
- E.V. Ramasamy Periyar.
- Modern Thinkers: Swami Vivekananda
- Aurobindo
- M.K. Gandhi
- M.N. Roy
- Ambedkar
- Jayaprakash Narayan
- Jawaharlal Nehru.
Unit IV INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Introduction: Meaning / Origin and Evolution
- Theories: Idealism – Realism
- Liberalism – Marxism
- Constructivism – Global Justice
- Role of Modern State/ Nation & the concept of Nationalism
- Security – War Impacts (First-World War & Second-World War
- Cold War & Post-Cold War / Nuclear Weapons)
- Dynamics of Diplomacy (Types – Mechanism – Institutions – Modern Trends)
- UN & its Agencies
- Regional Organisations (European Union / African Union / Shanghai Corporation Organisation / SAARC, ASEAN & BRICS).
- Contemporary Issues in Foreign Policy of India during the 21st Century
- Relations with Neighourhood (Pakistan, China, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, Afghanistan)
- Russia, USA and European Union.
Unit V POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS IN INDIA
- Introduction: Making of the Indian Constitution
- Constituent Assembly
- Philosophy of the Constitution
- Constitutionalism and Constitutional Amendment.
- Features and Structure: Executive (President, Prime Minister and Council of Ministers)
- Legislature (Union Parliament – Parliamentary Committees)
- Judiciary (Supreme Court, High Court, Judicial Review, Judicial Activism, Judicial Reform).
- Various Institutions and Challenges: Electoral Process and Election
- Commission of India – Local Government Institutions (Functioning and Reforms)
- Constitutional and Statutory Bodies (Comptroller and Auditor General
- National Commission for Scheduled Castes
- National Commission for Scheduled Tribes
- National Commission for Human Rights
- National Commission for Women
- National Commission for Minorities
Unit VI POLITICAL PROCESS IN INDIA
- Introduction: State Economy and Development
- Planning and Development
- Policies for Growth & Development
- Political Processes in Indian Politics: Reorganization of Indian State
- Identity Politics (Religion / Tribe / Caste / Region / Language)
- Ideology and Party Politics (National & State Parties)
- Globalization and its Dynamics
- Gender & Politics (Issues of Equality and Representation)
- Electoral Politics (Participation & Representation and Emerging Challenges)
- Role of Civil Society.
Unit VII PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
- Origin and growth: Concepts, principles and theories
- Classical – Bureaucratic – Scientific Management
- Human Relations – Ecological
- Features of Administration: Accountability and control
- Legislature, Executive and Judiciary)
- Human Resource Management
- Structure of bureaucracy, civil service at central, state and district level)
- Budgetary process – Committees – Tribunals.
- Issues and Challenges in Public Administration
- Ethics and Integrity
- New Public Management
- Issues challenges and changing trends in Public Administration.
Unit VIII GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS OF TAMILNADU
- Establishment of Madras Presidency and Dravidian Nationalism
- Non - Brahmanism, rise of Justice Party
- Growth of Dravidian identities and parties
- Self-respect Movement
- Formation of Dravida Kazhagam
- Role of government and its rise and decline
- Congress Regime - Rajaji
- State Reorganization
- K. Kamaraj – M. Bhakthavatsalam – DMK Regime
- 1967 elections – Formation of DMK
- Anti-Hindi agitations – C.N. Annadurai –
- M. Karunanidhi – M.K. Stalin
- AIADMK Regime: M. G. Ramachandran
- J. Jayalalitha
- O. Pannerselvam – Edapadi Palanisamy
- Other Political Parties and Issues: PMK–MDMK–DMDK–VCK–CPI–BJP–IUML
- Role and impact of Language, Cinema, Caste and Social media
- Policies and Politics from 1947 till date
- Welfare schemes, Social Justice programmes
- Committees and Commissions
- Sectoral policies and issues concerning the State & its relation with the Central Government
Unit IX MODERN GOVERNMENTS: (UK, USA & SWITZERLAND)
- Introduction: Establishment of modern constitutions and their characteristics
- Introduction to the State and the Government
- State and its Nature
- State and Government – Sovereignty
- Division of powers
- Unitary state
- Federal State
- Constitution and its classifications
- Written and Unwritten
- Flexible and Rigid
- Parliamentary and Non-Parliamentary forms of Government
- Types of governments: Presidential, Parliamentary
- Quasi-Presidential and Direct Democracy in the UK, USA and Switzerland (structure and function of Executive, Legislature and Judiciary)
- Nature of Political Parties & Electoral process: UK, USA and Switzerland.
Unit X PUBLIC POLICY AND GOVERNANCE IN INDIA
- Introduction: Concepts (public interest, public sector, output, development, economic growth, equity, government and governance)
- Theories (elite theory, group theory, political systems theory and institutionalism, policy output, incremental theory, rational choice theory)
- Features of Public policy in India
- Institutions and Policy Making in India
- Governance Structure (Right to Information
- Consumer Protection Act
- Citizen Charter / Grievance Redressal System
- Lokpal / Lokayukta – Panchayat Raj Institutions – System & functions
- Policy Governance in India: Instrument of Socio–Economic Development
- Centre and State Organizations and their Schemes/ Programmes/ Policies
- (Housing, Health, Drinking Water, Education, Food Security, Science & Technology etc).
