UGC/NTA Net - Political Science
Unit - 1: Political Theory
- Concepts
- Political Traditions
Unit - 2: Political Thought
- Confucius
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Machiavelli
- Hobbes
- Locke
- Rousseau
- Hegel
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- John Stuart Mill
- Karl Marx
- Gramsci
- Hannah Arendt
- Frantz Fanon
- Mao Zedong
- John Rawls
Unit - 3: Indian Political Thought
- Dharamshastra
- Kautilya
- Aggannasutta
- Barani
- Kabir
- Pandita Ramabai
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- Swami Vivekanand
- Rabindranath Tagore
- K Gandhi
- Sri Aurobindo
- Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
- Muhammad Iqbal
- N. Roy
- D. Savarkar
- B.R. Ambedkar
- L. Nehru
- Ram Manohar Lohia
- Jaya Prakash Narayan
- Deendayal Upadhyaya
Unit - 4: Comparative Political Analysis
- Approaches
- Colonialism and Decolonization
- Nationalism
- State Theory
- Political Regimes
- Democratic
- Non-Democratic
- Constitutions and Constitutionalism
- Democratisation
- Development
- Structures of Power
- Actors and Processes
Unit - 5: International Relations
- Approaches to the Study of International Relations
- Concepts
- Conflict and Peace
- United Nations
- Political Economy of International Relations
- Regional Organisations
- Contemporary Challenges
Unit - 6: India's Foreign Policy
- Perspectives on India's Foreign Policy
- Continuity and Change in India's Foreign Policy
- India's Relations with Major Powers
- India's Engagement with a Multipolar World
- India's Relations with Neighbourhood
- India's Negotiation Strategies in International Regimes
- Contemporary Challenges
Unit - 7: Political Institutions in India
- Making of the Indian Constitution
- Constituent Assembly
- Philosophy of the Constitution
- Constitutionalism in India
- Union Executive
- Union Parliament
- Judiciary
- Executive and Legislature in the States
- Federalism in India
- Electoral Process and Election Commission of India
- Local Government Institutions
- Constitutional and Statutory Bodies
Unit - 8: Political Processes in India
- State, Economy and Development
- Process of Globalisation
- Identity Politics
- Social Movements
- Civil Society Groups
- Regionalisation of Indian Politics
- Gender and Politics in India
- Ideology and Social Basis of Political Parties
- Electoral Politics
Unit - 9: Public Administration
- Public Administration
- Approaches
- Public Administration Theories and Concepts
- Theories and Principles of Organization
- Managing the Organization
- Organisational Communication
- Managing Conflict in the Organization
- Management by Objectives
Unit - 10: Governance and Public Policy in India
- Governance
- Accountability and Control
- Institutional Mechanisms for Good Governance
- Grassroots Governance
- Planning and Development
- Public Policy as an Instrument of Socio-Economic Development
- Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Policy