(Syllabus) Karnataka PSC: Preliminary Examination : Political Science & International Relations

Subject: Political Science & International Relations

SECTION ‘A’ (THEORY)

1.

• The State-Sovereignity; Theories of Sovereignity.
• Theories of the origin of the State (Social contract, Historical- Evolutionary and Marxist)
• Theories of the functions of the State (Liberal, Welfare and Socialist).

2.

• Concepts - Rights, property, Liberty, Equality, Justice.
• Democracy - Electroal Process; Theories of Representations; Public Opinion, freedom of speech, the role of the Press; Parties and Pressure Groups.
• Political Theories - Liberalism; Early Socialism. Marxian Socialism, Facism.
• Theories of Development and Under Development Liberal and Marxist.

SECTION - B (GOVERNMENT) :

1.

• Government - Constitution and Constitutional Government, Parliamentary and Presidential Government Federal and Unitary Government; State,and Local
  Government; Cabinet Government; Bureaucracy.

2.

• India- Colonialism and Nationalism in India; the national liberation movement and constitutional development.
• The Indian Constitution, Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles of State Policy; Legislature; Executive, . Judiciary, including Judicial Review; the Role of Law.
• Federalism, including Centre State Relations. Parliamentary system in India.
• Indian Federalism compared and contrasted with federalism in the USA, Canada, Australia, Nigeria and Federal Republic of Germany and the USSR.

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