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KARNATAKA STATE ELIGIBILITY TEST FOR LECTUERSHIP-2011

(ACCREDITED BY UGC, NEW DELHI)

Conducted by University of Mysore

(AS THE STATE AGENCY)

SYLLABUS AND SAMPLE QUESTIONS

SUBJECT SUBJECT
CODE NO.
14 POLATICAL SCIENCE

UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE, PAREEKSHA BHAVAN

UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE, MYSORE-570005

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 [14] : POLITICAL SCIENCE
(OLD NAME : POLITICS)

A. SYLLABUS
PAPER—II
1. Political Theory and Thought
Ancient Indian Political Thought : Kautilya and Shanti Parva.
Greek Political Thought : Plato and Aristotle.
European Thought I : Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau.
European Thought-II : Bentham. J. S. Mill, Hegel, Marx and Green.
Contemporary political Thought-I : Lenin, Mao, Gramsci.
Contemporary Political Thought-II : Rawls, Nozic and Communitarians.
Modern Indian Thought : Gandhi, M. N. Roy, Aurobindo Ghosh, Joy Prakash, Ambedkar,
Savarkar.
Concepts and Issue-I : Medieval Political Thought : Church State Relationship and Theory of
Two Swords.
Concepts and Issue-II : Behaviouralism and Post- Behaviouralism, Decline and Resurgence of
Political Theory.
Democracy, Liberty and Equality.
2. Comparative Politics and Political Analysis
Evolution of comparative Politics as a discipline; Nature and scope.
Approaches to the study of comparative politics : Traditional, Structural-Functional, Systems
and Marxist.
Constitutionalism : Concepts, Problems and Limitations.
Forms of Government : Unitary-Federal, Parliamentary-Presidential.
Organs of Government : Executive, Legislature, Judiciary-their interrelationship in comparative
perspective.
Party Systems and Pressure Groups; Electoral Systems.
Bureaucracy-types and roles.
Political Development and Political Modernization.
Political Culture, Political Socialization and Political Communication.
Political Elite; Elitist theory of Democracy.
Power, Authority and Legitimacy.

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Revolution : Theories and Types.
Dependency : Development and Under Development.

3. Indian Government and Politics

National Movement, Constitutional Developments and the Making of Indian Constitution.
Ideological Bases of the Indian Constitution, Preamble, Fundamental Rights and Duties and
Directive Principles.
Constitution as Instrument of Socio-Economic Change, Constitutional Amendments and Review.
Structure and Process-I : (+) President, Prime Minister, Council of ministers Working of the
Parliamentary system.
Structure and Process-II : Governor, Chief Minister, Council of Ministers, State Legislature.
Panchayati Raj Institutions : Rural and Urban, their working.
Federalism : Theory and Practice in India; Demands of Autonomy and Separatist Movements;
Emerging trends in Centre-State Relations.
Judiciary : Supreme Court, High Courts, Judicial Review, Judicial Activism including Public
Interest Litigation cases, Judicial Reforms.
Political Parties, Pressure Groups, Public Opinion, Media; Subaltern and Peasant Movements.
Elections, Electoral Behaviour, Election Commission and Electoral Reforms.

4. Public Administration
Development of Public Administration as a discipline, Approaches to the study of Public
Administration : Decision-making, Ecological and Systems;
Development Administration.
Theories of organization.
Principles of organization : Line and staff, unity of command, hierarchy, span of control,
centralization and decentralization, Types of organization-formal and informal; Forms of
organization ; department, public corporation and board.
Chief Executive : Types, functions and roles.
Personnel administration : Recruitment, Training, Promotion, Discipline, Morale:
Employee-Employer Relations.

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Bureaucracy : Theories, Types and Roles; Max Weber and his critics Civil servant-Minister
relationship.
Leadership, its role in decision-making; Communication.
Financial Administration : Budget, Audit, Control over Finance with special reference to India
and UK.
Good Governance; Problems of Administrative Corruption; Transparency and Accountability;
Right to Information.
Grievance Redressal Institutions : Ombudsman, Lokpal and Lokayukta.
5. International Relations
Contending Theories and Approaches to the study of International Relations:
Idealist, Realist, Systems, Game, Communication and Decision-making.
Power, Interest and Ideology in International Relations; Elements of Power :
Acquisition use and limitations of power, Perception, Formulation and Promotion of National
Interest, Meaning, Role and Relevance of Ideology in International Relations.
Arms and Wars : Nature, causes and types of wars/conflicts including ethnic disputes;
conventional, Nuclear/bio-chemical wars; deterrence, Arms race, Arms control and
Disarmament.
Peaceful settelment of disputes, conflict resolution, Diplomacy, World-order and Peace studies.
Cold war, Alliances, Non-alignment, End of Cold war, Globalisation.
Rights and Duties of states in international law, intervention, Treaty law, prevention and
abolition of war.
Political Economy of International Relations ; New International Economic Order, North-
South Dialogue, South-South Cooperation, WTO, Neo-colonialism and Dependency.
Regional and sub-regional organisations especially SAARC, ASEAN, OPEC, OAS. United
Nations : Aims, Objectives, Structure and Evaluation of the working of UN : Peace and
Development perspectives; charter Revision; Power-struggle and Diplomacy within UN.
Financing and Peace-keeping operations.
India’s Role in International affairs : India’s relations with its neighbours, wars, security
concerns and pacts, Mediatory Role, distinguishing features of Indian Foreign Policy and
Diplomacy.

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 PAPER—III
(CORE and ELECTIVE/OPTIONAL)
Unit—I
Political Theory
Nature of Political Theory, its main concerns, decline and resurgence since 1970s
Liberalism and Marxism
Individual and Social Justice
Role of Ideology
Theories of change : Leniu, Mao, Gandhi
Unit—II
Political Thought
Plato and Aristotle
Machavelli
Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and J. S. Mill
Karl Marx
Gandhi, M. N. Roy, Aurobindo Ghosh
Unit—III
Comparative Politics and Political Analysis
Approaches to the study of comparative Politics
Constitutionalism in theory and practice
Executive, Legislature and Judiciary with special reference to India, USA, UK and
Switzerland
Party system and role of opposition, Electoral Process
Separation of Powers, Rule of Law and Judicial Review
Unit—IV
Political Development
Political Modernization

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Political Socialisation and Political Culture
Power and Authority
Political Elite

Unit—V
Making of the Indian Constitution
Fundamental Rights and Duties, and Directive Principles
Union Executive. Parliament
Supreme Court, Judicial Activism
Indian Federalism : Theory, Practice and Problems

Unit—VI
Dynamics of state politics
Local Governments : Rural and Urban
Political Parties, Pressure Groups, and Public Opinion
Elections, Electoral Reforms
Class, Caste, Gender, Dalit and Regional Issues, Problems of Nation-Building and Integration

Unit—VII
Growth of public Administration as a discipline: and New Public Administration Theories of
Organisation (Classical, Scientific, Human Relations): Principles of Organisation.
Chief Executive
Control over Administration-Judicial and Legislative
Bureaucracy
Unit—VIII
Development Planning and Administration in India
Bureaucracy and Challenges of Development
Administrative Culture; Administrative Corruption, and Administrative Reforms.
Panchayati Raj
Impact of Liberalization on Public Administration

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Unit—IX
Theories of International Relations
Ideology, Power and Interest
Conflicts and Conflict-Resolution
Changing concept of National Security and Challenges to the Nation-State System Arms and
Arms-control
Unit—X
End of Cold War, Globalisation and Political Economy of International Relations in the
Contemporary World,
Determinants and Compulsions of India’s Foreign Policy; India’s Nuclear Policy.
India’s Relations with Neighbours and USA.
India’s Role in the UN.
India and Regional Organizations (SAARC, ASEAN), Indian Ocean.

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B. QUESTION PAPER PATTERN
There will be two question papers, paper-II and paper-III.
 Paper II will have 50 objective Type Questions (Multiple choice, Matching type;
True/False, Assertion-Reasoning type) carrying 100 marks. All the 50 questions are
compulsory and have to be marked in OMR sheet.
 Paper III shall consist of four sections. All the questions will be given in the Text
Booklet itself, providing sufficient space to answer the questions. No additional sheets
will be provided to the candidates.
Details of questions set in different Sections as follows.

Section I

Essay writing: Two questions with internal choice on general themes and contemporary,
theoretical, disciplinary relevance may be given. The candidate is excepted to write up to Five
Hundred words for each questions of 20 marks(2 Q x20M=40 Marks).In case the questions are
based on electives, the choice should have questions are based on electives, the choices should
have questions from each elective, otherwise all choices should be of general nature, common to
all candidates. In case of science subjects like Computer Science and applications,
Environmental Sciences, Electronic Sciences etc., two questions carrying 20 marks each may be
given in place of essay type questions. The questions in this section will be numbered as 1 and 2.

Section II

Three extended answer based questions to test the analytical ability for the candidates are to
asked on the major specialization /electives. Questions will be asked on all major specialization
/electives and the candidates may be asked to choose one of the specialization /electives and
answer the three questions. There is to be no internal choice. Each question will be answered in
upto three hundred (300) words. And shall carry 15 marks each (3QX 15M=45 Marks).Where
there is no specialization /Elective, three questions may be across the syllabus. The questions in
this section will be numbered as 3 to 5.

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Section III

Nine Questions may be asked across the syllabus. The Questions will be definitional seeking
particular information and are to be answered in up to Fifty words each. For Science subjects are
mentioned in section-I, Short numerical/computational problems may be considered. Each
questions will carry 10 marks (9Qx10M).There should be no internal choice. The questions in
this section will be numbered as 6 to 14.

Section IV

It requires the candidates to answer questions from a given text of around 200-300 words taken
from of a known thinker/author. Five carefully considered specific questions are to be asked on
the given text, requiring an answer in up to 30 words each. This section carries5 questions of 5
marks each (5Qx5M=25Marks). In the case of science subjects, theoretical/numerical problem
may be set. These questions are meant to test critical thinking ability to comprehend and apply
knowledge one possesses. The questions in this section will be numbered as 15to 19.

Section Type of Questions Test of No of Words Marks

Questions Per Total Per Total
Answer Question
I Essay Ability to dwell 2 500 1000 20 40
on a themes at
optimum level
II Three/analytical/evaluati Ability to reason 3 300 900 15 45
ve questions and hold an
argument on the
given topic.
III Nine definitional/short Ability to 9 50 450 10 90
answer questions understand and
express the same
IV Text based Questions Critical 5 30 150 05 25
thinking, ability
to comprehend
and formulate
and concepts
Total 19 -- 2500 -- 200

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C. SAMPLE QUESTIONS
PAPER—II
1. Voting behaviour means
(A) The voters do not behave properly at the time of elections.
(B) Study of the factors that Influence the choice of the voters.
(C) Study of those voters who do not vote for the ruling party.
(D) Study of the phenomenon of bandwagon effect.

2. Your State Government wants to nationalise the private transport companies and create
a public corporation.
Which of the following step will be the first condition for its creation ?
(A) Order of Governor for the appointment of the Chairman.
(B) Creation of a fund for the purpose.
(C) Make it a juristic personality.
(D) Pass a law defining the field of autonomy.

PAPER—III
SECTION – I
This section consists of two essay type questions of twenty (20) marks each, to be answered in
about five hundred (500) words each. (2 × 20 = 40 marks)

1. Critically examine the causes for the decline and resurgence of political theory.
OR
Critically evaluate the centre periphery theory of underdevelopment in the context of Third
World Countries.
OR
Discuss the extent to which Centre-State financial relations are indicative of a strong centre in a
federation

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Discuss the Sino-Indian relations in the Post Cold War era.
OR
Write an essay on major trends and issues in the growth and evolution of public administration
as discipline.

Note: For more details regarding sample questions for paper II and paper III, you can
refer to the UGC-NET 2010 Examination Question papers, available in the UGC website
(www.ugc.ac.in).

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