(Paper Codes / Numbers revised as per suggestions made in the Admission Committee meeting held on ……………………………) Annexure –III UNIVERSITY OF DELHI MASTER OF ARTS (POLITICAL SCIENCE) (Semester based Course) Rules, Regulations and Course Contents Semester I - Nov. Examination 2010 Semester II - April/May Examination 2011 Semester III - Nov. Examination 2011 Semester IV - April/May Examination 2012 M. (Political Science syllabus as per revised course structure to be effective from Academic year 2010-11 and onwards CONTENTS Pages I.
Scheme of Examination, Pass Percentage, 3-4 Promotion Criteria etc. Course Contents and Reading Lists of M.) Structure AFFILATION The proposed programme shall be governed by the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi, Delhi – 110007 Programme Structure The M.) is divided into two parts as under. Each Part will consist of two Semesters. Semester Semester Part – I First Year Semester I Semester II Part – II Second Year Semester III Semester IV The schedule of Papers prescribed for various semesters shall be as follows: Papers Marks Total Duration Marks (Hrs.) Written Internal Assessment Part I : Semester I Paper 101 : Debates in Political Theory 75 25 100 3 Paper 201 : Comparative Political Analysis 75 25 100 3 Paper 301 : Politics in India 75 25 100 3 Paper 401 : Theories of International Relations 75 25 100 3 Total 400 Part I : Semester II Paper 102 : Administrative Theory 75 25 100 3 Paper 202 : Themes in Indian Political Thought 75 25 100 3 Paper 302: Themes in World Politics and 75 25 100 3 International Political Economy Paper 402: Key Texts in Political Philosophy 75 25 100 3 Total 400 Part II : Semester III Paper 103 : Interpreting Modern India 75 25 100 3 Paper : Optional Paper 75 25 100 3 (from the set on offer for the semester) Paper : Optional Paper 75 25 100 3 (from the set on offer for the semester) Paper : Optional Paper 75 25 100 3 (from the set on offer for the semester) Total 400 Part II : Semester IV Paper 104 : Democracy and Political 75 25 100 3 Institutions Paper : Optional Paper 75 25 100 3 (from the set on offer for the semester) Paper : Optional Paper 75 25 100 3 (from the set on offer for the semester) Paper : Optional Paper 75 25 100 3 (from the set on offer for the semester) Total 400 Grand Total 1600 Optional Papers: Students will have to take 6 optional papers over the two year M.
These are made available in semesters II, III and IV. Students can select any two papers from the set offered in that semester. The choice must be made before the semester begins. The Department has the autonomy to decide what courses will be offered at the beginning of the academic year.
List of Optional Papers 1. Ethics and Politics 2. Critical Traditions in Political Theory 3. The Modern State in Comparative Perspective 4.
Social Movements and Revolutions 5. Parties, Elections and Political Process in India 6. Development Process and Politics in India 7. Democracy and Human Rights in India 8.
Public Institutions and Governance 10. Rural- Urban Development and Local Government in India 11. Environment and Development: Policy and Politics 12. Peace and Conflict in International Politics 13.
India and the World 14. Foreign Policy of Major Powers 15. State and Society in South Asia 16. South Asia and the World 17.
State and Society in Pakistan 18. Pakistan and the World 19. State and Society in Africa 20. Africa and the World 21.
Comparative Federalism: Theory and Practice 22. Culture and Politics in India 23. Social Exclusion: Theory and Practice 24. Gender in International Relations 25.
Indian Strategic Thought 26. The Politics of Violence in South Asia 27. State and Society in Canada 29. State and Society in the US 30.
Constitutionalism in Comparative Perspective 31. Religion, Reform, Natinonalism 32. Gandhi, autonomy and discourse 33. Ambedkar in Contemporary India 34.
Dalit bahujan political thought 35. Contemporary Explorations in Tagore 36. Discourses on Hindu Nationalism 37. Social conservatism in India 38.
Indian Polity in State society interactions 39. State Politics in India 40. Identities and Political Transformation in India 41. Politics and Ethnic conflicts in J&K 42.
Law, Crime and Politics in India 43. State in political traditions 44. Society, State and Politics Comparing Israel and India -2- 45. Religious Nationalism and Political Violence 46.
The Politics of Identity in Comparative Perspective 47. Nationalism in comp perspective 48. Themes in Citizenship 49. Democracy and violence 50.
Collaborative Governance and Public policy 51. Corporate Citizenship and Governance-AX 52. Institutions, Development & Poverty 20 May 2015 53. Environmental Policies & Politics 54.
The Political in Local Governance 55. Global Justice and the South 56. Theory Practice of Democracy 57. Contemporary Critical Theory --------------------------------------------------------------------- -3- II: SCHEME OF EXAMINATIONS 1.
English shall be the medium of instruction. Students can write their individual exam papers in English or Hindi medium but not both. Examinations shall be conducted at the end of each Semester as per the Academic Calendar notified by the University of Delhi. The system of evaluation shall be as follows: 3.1 Each course will carry 100 marks, of which 25 marks shall be reserved for internal assessment as determined by the faculty members teaching the respective papers.2 The remaining 75 marks in each paper shall be awarded on the basis of a written examination at the end of each semester.
The duration of written examination for each paper shall be three hours. Examinations for courses shall be conducted only in the respective Odd and Even Semesters as per the Scheme of Examinations. Regular as well as ex-students shall be permitted to appear/reappear/improve in courses of Odd Semesters only at the end of Odd Semester and courses of Even Semesters only at the end of Even Semesters. PASS PERCENTAGE Minimum marks for passing the examination in each semester shall be 40% in each paper.
No student would be allowed to avail of more than 3 chances to pass any paper inclusive of the first attempt. Aggregate pass marks for Part I & Part II (combined) is 40%. PROMOTION CRITERIA No student will be detained in I or III semester on the basis of his/her performance in I or III semester examination: i. the student will be promoted automatically from I to II and III to IV semester.
A student shall be eligible for promotion from Ist year to IInd year of the course provided he/she has passed 50% papers of I and II semester taken together. However, he/she will have to clear the remaining paper/s while studying in the 2nd year of the programme DIVISION CRITERIA Successful candidates will be classified on the basis of the combined results of Part-I and Part-II examination as follows: Candidates securing 60% and above : I Division Candidates securing 50% and above, up to 60% : II Division Candidates securing 40% and above, up to 50% : III Division -4- SPAN PERIOD No student shall be admitted as a candidate for the examination for any of the Parts/Semesters after the lapse of four years from the date of admission to the Part- I/Semester-I of the M. ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENT The student are required to attend tutorials, seminars etc. arranged by the Department/College from time to time.
--------------------------------------------------------------------- -5- COMPULSORY PAPERS PAPER 101: DEBATES IN POLITICAL THEORY Course Objective: This course proposes to build on a prior understanding of the nature and value of theoretical inquiry in politics. Political theory begins with a few fundamental questions that have a bearing on the good life, and the ways in which we seek to collectively secure it. It does not claim to have any final answers to such questions and instead acknowledges disagreements. Our basic disagreements on how we must constitute our collective life are part of our evaluations that we make on a continual basis of the political and social order we inhabit.
Evaluation usually entails an intense engagement with the political context within which we live, the nature of our values and political institutions, their clarification and analyses, together with weighing the necessity of just institutions and values. The activity of evaluation lays bare a wide range of arguments that are used in political discourse sharpening thereby our political judgment. It is imperative to evaluate, argue and judge and then raise for the consideration of justification our existing or appropriate political practices, decisions, policies and institutions. This course seeks to explore and understand some of the major debates that contemporary political theory is engaged in, and hopes thereby to enrich our skills of analysis and judgment.
Debates will relate to concepts: 1. What is Political Theory? b. Disagreements and Debates in Political Theory c. Normative judgement in a Political Context 2.
The Political Context a. The Faces of Power (Steven Lukes) c. Ideology and Power (Althusser) d. Power and the Subject: Foucault f.
On the Colonial State in India (Naoroji, Dutt and Gandhi) 3. Debates on freedom a. Freedom as autonomy (Kant, Mill) c. Freedom and the market (Libertarians) e.
Freedom as Development (Sen) g. Freedom as Swaraj (Gandhi) 4. Debates on Equality a. Value of Equality (Bernard Williams) b.
Equality of Opportunity (Rawls) c. Equality of What? (Welfare, Resources, Capability) d. Luck egalitarianism and its critique (Elizabeth Anderson) e. Equality, Priority or Sufficiency (Scheffler, Parfit, Franfurt) 5.
Debates on Justice a. Justice as Fairness (Rawls) c. Communitarian and Feminist Conceptions (Walzer, Sandel, Okin) d. Debates on Rights: a.
Choice and Interest theories c. Conflicts between rights d. Rights as Trumps e. Civil Disobedience and Satyagraha 7.
Debates on Democratic Political Community a. Substantive Conceptions of Democracy b. Recognition and Democratic Struggles c. Political Community and the Challenges of Pluralism d.
Citizenship, Virtues and Democratic Education READINGS: Hampton, Jean (1989) ‘Should Political Philosophy by Done without Metaphysics?’ Ethics: 99, 791-814. Mckinnon, Catriona, 2008, ‘Introduction’ in Mckinnon, Catriona (ed), Issues in Political Theory, New York: Oxford University Press. Haugaard, Mark, 2002, Power: A Reader, Manchester University Press: 1-66; 181-204. Althusser, L, 1977, ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an Investigation)’ in Althusser 'Lenin and Philosophy' and Other Essays, London: New Left Books.
Power: A Radical View. London: Macmillan Press, 1974. Constant, Benjamin, 1988, ‘The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns’,in Benjamin Constant, Political Writings, Cambridge University Press: 308-28., 1969, ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’, in I. Berlin, Four Essays on Liberty, London: Oxford University Press: 118-72., 2005, ‘Liberty: One Concept Too Many?’, Political Theory, 33, pp., 1967, ‘Negative and Positive Freedom’, Philosophical Review, 76, pp., 2007, ‘Republican Freedom: Three Axioms, Four Theorems’, in Laborde, C.
(eds), Republicanism and Political Theory, Oxford: Blackwell., 1979, ‘What's Wrong with Negative Liberty’, in A.), The Idea of Freedom, Oxford: Oxford University Press., 2002, ‘A Third Concept of Liberty’, Proceedings of the British Academy, 117, no. Sen, Amartya, 2000, Development as Freedom, Delhi: OUP: Introduction, Ch. -7- Dworkin, Ronald, 1981, ‘What is Equality? Part I: Equality of Welfare’; ‘Part II: Equality of Resources’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. Arneson, R, 1989, ‘Equality and Equal Opportunity for Welfare’, Philosophical Studies, 56 (1): 77-93., 1989, ‘On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice’, Ethics, 99 (4): 906-44., 2000, ‘Equality or Priority?’, in M.) The Ideal of Equality, London: Macmillan: 81-126., 1987, ‘Equality as a Moral Ideal’, Ethics, 98 (1): 21-43.
Rawls, John, 1971, A Theory of Justice, Harvard: Bellknap. Sandel, Michael, 1982, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Walzer, M, 1983, Spheres of Justice, New York: Basic Books. Steiner, Hillel, 1994, An Essay on Rights, Oxford: Blackwell.
Raz, Joseph, 1986, The Morality of Freedom, Oxford: Clarendon Press. Dworkin, Ronald, 1977, Taking Rights Seriously, Harvard University Press. Taylor, Charles, et al, 1994, Multiculturalism: Examining The Politics of Recognition, Princeton: Princeton University Press. Callann, Eamonn, ‘Citizenship and Education’, Annual Review of Political Science, 7 (2004): 71-90.