I B.A SEMESTER POLITICAL SCIENCE SYLLABUS

TITILE- CONCEPTS, THEORIES, AND INSTITUTIONS

UNIT-1 Democracy

·        Definition and Meaning of Democracy, forms of Democracy

·        Conditions necessary for the success of Democracy

·        Merits and demerits of democracy

Unit-II  Ideology

·         (A) individualism, Anarchism, Facisim, Marxism, and Gandhism

·        (B) Theory of separation of powers, montesquieu’s  theory of separation of powers

Unit-III  Constitutionalism:-

·        Legislation, uni-cameralism and Bi-cameralism

·         Powers and functions of legislature

·        Committee system- stages of making the law

·        Reasons for the decline of the importance of the legislature

Unit-IV- Executive

·        (A) meaning and importance of the executive – types of executive

·        Functions of executive

·        Delegated legislations , features of parliamentary

·        Executive – merits and demerits

·        Features of presidential executive , merits and demerits

·        (B) judiciary Meaning and importance of judiciary

·        Structure of judiciary- powers and functions of judiciary

Unit-V- popular control

·        Welfare state  and Human rights

·        Meaning and importance of popular control, methods of popular control

·        Meaning and Definitions of welfare state

·        Functions of welfare state, reasons for growing importance to welfare state

·        Functions of welfare state, reasons for growing importance to Human rights

·        United Declaration of Human rights