FACULTY OF ARTS DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD PRAYAGRAJ-211001 BA SYLLABUS SECOND YEAR 2024-25B.A. PART-II PAPERI WESTERN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Course Objectives: The aim is to introduce to the students the questions, ideas and values of political philosophy addressed by the western political thinkers. It will introduce the students to the key debates and ideas in Western political thought by initiating reading of original texts and understand the different interpretations of their philosophies. It will cover a few thinkers chronologically in the history of ideas and aim to evaluate their philosophy with reference to the contexts in which these grew. It will enable them to understand key debates in the contemporary society and politics. Course Outcomes: By the end of the course students would be able to: ‘© Understand how to read and interpret the text and use them to employ in contemporary socio-political issues. ‘© Identify the fundamental thought in the western political philosophy * Acquire knowledge about the dominant political views and develop a critical understanding of the political thought ‘© Understand different perspectives and approaches to state, politics, government, sovereignty, citizenship and so on. UNITI Ancient Greek Political Thought Characteristics of Ancient Greek Political Thought. Plato: Justice, Communism, Education, Ideal State, Sub-Ideal State. Aristotle: Method, Origin, Nature and End of State, Property and Slavery, Revolution, Justice and Citizenship. UNIT IL Aquinas: Scholasticism, State- Church Relationship, Law, his Importance Machiavelli: Life and Times, Views on Religion, Morality, State, Diplomacy, his importanceUNIT III Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau: State of Nature, Social Contract, Sovereignty, State, Rousscau’s concept of General Will Mary Wollstonecraft: The Rights of Woman UNIT IV Bentham: Utilitarianism, His importance J. S. Mill: Revision of Utilitarianism, Liberty, Democracy His Importance TH. Green: Idealism, Individualism, State, Rights UNIT V Hegel: Dialectics, State, His Importance Marx: Dialectical Materialism, Economic Analysis of History, Theory of Class Conflict, Revolution and Communism, Importance of Marx Lenin: State, Revolution, Party and Imperialism. BOOKS RECOMMENDED Brian R Nelson : Western Political Thought (Second Ed) BR. Purohit: Rajnitik Chintan Ka ltihas CLL. Wayper: Political Thought D.R. Bhanda ‘A History of European Political Thought David Mc Lellan: Political Thought of Karl Marx. Emest Barker: Plato and Aristotle GH Sabine and Thorson: History of Political Ideas J.P. Suda: Adhunik Rajnitik Vichar 1 Mukherjee and Ramaswamy: A History of Political Thought (English & Hindi) K.L. Kamal: Pashchatya Rajnitik Chintan Martin Cohen: Political Philosophy from Plato to Marx O.P. Gauba: Rajnitik Chintan ka Itihas RS. Chaurasia: History of Western Political thought Ram Chandra Sharma: Rajnitik Chintan Vol. 1 & ITSukhbir Singh: History of Political Thought Mary Wollstonecraft: The Vindication of the Rights of Women: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects William A Dunning: A Histories of Political Theory, VOL.1 & II Shefali Jha: Western Political Thought: Ancient Greeks to Modern Times David Boucher & Paul Kelly: Political Thinkers from Socrates to the PresentB.A. PART II PAPER - I COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS Course Objective This course introduces students to the different perspectives, approaches and conceptual frameworks of comparative government and polities. The course emphasizes the importance of understanding how and why comparisons are made apart from what is to be compared. It exposes students to conceptual categories and analytical frameworks which capture and explain both the similarities and differences in political experiences across the world. Students would be made familiar to the diversity of approaches to study politics such as pi stitutions, political culture and specific debates within each of the approaches. ‘The main objectives of the course are to help students develop knowledge, skills, attitudes and values appropriate for the overall civic and cultural development of our society: i. In terms of knowledge: This course proposes to build on a prior understanding of the nature and value of theoretical inquiry in government and politics. Students will acquire a comprehensive understanding of the key concepts and the historical development of comparative government and politics including the theoretical frameworks and approaches. The purpose is to help students examine contemporary political realities with conceptual tools which enable them to see relationship among political phenomena across the world and understand the debates that have gathered around them, ii, In terms of skills: To enable students to develop critical thinking and enhance their ‘communication and analytical skills through a variety of methods ranging from textual analyses, experiential learning and use of quantitative data. This course will enhance learning to learn/self-awareness and self-direction, collaboration, creativity and communication. There has been a shift in education toward recognizing that students will develop these skills after completing this course. iii, In terms of attitudes and values: Fostering values and attitudes of solidarity and ‘empathy is a key part of our learning objective. We often think of the world within our own parameters and this course will help us to venture into the unknown to see things from other perspectives. This course will help students to develop motivation and commitment to take responsibility, empathy, collaboration, conflict resolution and patience. This also provides opportunities to develop and learn to value friendship based on trust, and a sense of justice and responsibility for their own actions and those of others. Course Learning Outcomes: After completing this course, the students would: i. Become familiar with the debates on key concepts and theoretical perspectives in comparative government and politics.ii, Learn to use the comparative method to analyse why and how political institutions, processes, regimes, and ideologies change over time and across regions. i. Learn to use conceptual tools to understand new developments in political experiences across the world in their historical, sociological, political economy, and institutional perspectives. iv. Develop a thorough understanding on how to study politics comparatively, that is, understand similarities and differences in political experiences. v. Gain an understanding of the nature, scope, approaches, and development of the discipline. vi, Acquire an understanding of a range of concepts such as constitution and constitutionalism, unitary and federal form of governments. vii. Demonstrate knowledge of federal designs and unitary model form of government based on different notions of nationalism. viii. Learn how to distinguish between different kinds of political systems based on their electoral design and party systems. Unit Understanding Comparative Government and Politi i) Nature and Scope ii) Meaning and Importance ili) Approaches to Studying Comparative Politics: Traditional and Modern Unit 1 Constitution and Constitutionalism i) Constitution and Constitutionalism: Meaning, Nature and Kinds ii) Ruleof Law iii) Organs of Government: Legislature, Executive and Judiciary Unit 1 Organizations of Governments i) Unitary and Federal ii) Parliamentary and Presidential iii) Democracy iv) Dictatorship and Authoritarian Systems Unit IV 1) Political Culture, Political Socialization, Political Modernization, Political Development I) Party System: a. Political Parties: One-Party, Two-Party and Multi-Party Systems b. Party System: Liberal Democratic and Communist Models11) Pressure Groups: a) Meaning and Kinds b)_ Role and Techniques of Pressure Groups in Democracy Unit V Electoral Process i) Electoral System and Voting Behaviour ii) Public Opinion Suggested Readings 1. Aldrich John Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Party Politics in America, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1995). 2. Chibber, Pradeep and Kollman, Ken (1998). “Party Aggregation and the Number of Parties in India and the United States” American Political Science Review 9 (2): 3. Calvo, Ernesto and Maria Murillo ‘Who Delivers? Partisan Clients in the Argentine Electoral Market’, American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 48, No. 4, (October 2004), 4, Cox, Gary (1997), Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems. New York: Cambridge University Press. 5. Hauss, C. (2014). Comparative politics: Domestic responses to global challenges. Cengage Learning. 6. Kesselman, M. Krieger, J. & Joseph, W. A. (2018) Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and changing agendas, Cengage Learning. 7. Kitschelt, Herbert. (1992) “The Formation of Party Systems in East Central Europe” Politics and Society, 8. Kohli, A. & Singh, P. (Eds.), (2013). Routledge handbook of Indian politics, Routledge. 9. Lipset, Seymour Martin and Stein Rokkan 1967 “Cleavage Structures, Party Systems, and Voter Alignments: An Introduction,” in Lipset and Rokkan eds., Party Systems and Voter Alignments, 10. Magaloni, Beatriz. (2006). Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 11. Martin Shefier. (1981). “Parties and Patronage: England, Germany, and Italy.” Politics and Society 12. Thachil, Tarig. (2014). Elite Parties, Poor Voters: Social Services as Electoral Strategy in India. Cambridge University Press. 13, Edward Weisb and, Courtney I P Thomas, Political Culture and the Making of Modern Nation-States, 2015, Routledge 14, The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State, 2015 15. 1 C Johari, Comparative Politics, Sterling, 2011 16. O P Gauba, An Introduction to Political Theory, Macmillan Publishers, 2013 17. Carole Spary, Gender, Development, and the State in India, Routledge, 2019 18. Zoya Hasan, Politics and the State in India, 2015, Sage