SYLLABUS FOR M.A.

IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
Under CBCS with Semester System
Subject: Political Science
(Post Graduate)

2018

UNIVERSITY OF GOUR BANGA

MOKDUMPUR, MALDA,
WEST BENGAL, INDIA
PIN - 732103

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6. From Communism to Democratic Freedom: Perestroika and New Thinking of Mikhail Gorvachev –
Rajkumar Kathari.
7. International Relations – Peu Ghosh.
8. Terrorism: Concepts and Problems –Debnarayan Modak(ed).
9. The United Nations in the New Millenium –B.N.Mehish .
10. Post 9/11 Indian Foreign Policy: Challenges and Opportunities-Sudhir Kumar Singh (Ed).
11. The United Nations –Rumki Basu.
12. International Relations since the Thentieth Century – D. C. Bhattacharyya.
13. The Making of India’s Foreign Policy –J. Bandyopadhyaya.
14. International Relations: Theory and Practice of International Politics – K.K. Ghai.
15. Theoretical Aspects of International Politics.
16. Nuclera Strategy –Sudha Raman.
17. International RelationsToday –Aneek Chatterjee.
18. International Relations Theories –Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki
19. The Making of Foreign Policy: A Decision Making Analysis, Oxford, 1984 –Joseph Frankel.
20. Domestic Roots of India’s Foreign policy, New Delhi: Oxford, 1981-A. Appadorai.
21. Globalisation and South Asian States, South Asian Publishers, 1998 –R.B.Babu.
22. India’s Foreign Policy in a Challenging World, Vikas, 1999- V.P. Dutt.
23 .Domestic Imperatives in India’s foreign policy South Asian, 2001 – N.K.Jha.
24. India’s Foreign Policy in a Challenging World, South Asian, 2000 –N.K .Jha.
25. Foreign Policy of India , Vikas,2000 –V.N .Khanna .
26. India and Her Neighbours, Deep & Deep, 1991 –S.S. Bindra .
27. India, Pakistan and the Kargil War, Harper-Collins, 2001 –P. Chopra .
28. India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Vikas,-1981. Mohamad Ayoob .
29. War and Diplomacy in Kashmir, Sage –C. Dasgupta.
30. Conflict and Peace Keeping in South Asia, Lancers Books, 2001 –P. Sehadavan.
31. International Politics: Ed. Rumki Basu

Fourth Semester
Paper Elective-05, (Paper Code: POLI-405): Field Survey and Dissertation and Paper
Elective-06 (Paper Code: POLI-406): Research Methodology: Methods and Techniques are
compulsory. The students shall have to choose any one group out of three groups.

Special Paper (Group- A/ Group- B / Group- C)

GROUP- A: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

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Paper-01, (Paper Code: POLI-401): Recent Trends of Public Administration

Unit-I: State VS Market Debate, New Public Administration, New Public Management
Perspective, Public Choice Approach, New Public Management Perspective, Public Enterprises:
patterns, Role, Performance and Impact of Liberalisation; Impact of Globalisation on Public
Administration.

Unit-II: Public Policy and Leadership: Nature and definition of Public Policy- Various types-
Public policy Stages-Objectives of Public Policy- Policy Formulation and Implementation;
Leadership-Definitions, Approaches, Theories and Styles

Unit-III: Participative Management Theory and Behaviour: Immaturity-Maturity Theory-

Organisational Structures of New System-Theory X and Theory Y: McGregor; System of
Management-Rensis Likert; Hierarchy of Needs-Abraham Maslow; Views of Frederick Herzberg;
Administration VS Management Debate; Decision-Making Theory -Herbert Simon and others,
Communication Theories, Administrative law and adjudication- Administrative Legislation,
Delegated Legislation, Administrative Adjudication.

Unit-IV: Accountability and Control over Administration: Define Accountability and Control-
Forms of Accountability, Types of Control- Executive Control, Parliamentary Control, and
Community’s Control over administration and Judicial Control.

Unit-V: Citizen and Administration Corruption: People’s Participation in Administration, Role of

Civil Society in administration, Good Governance, E-governance, E-Democracy and
Administration, Right to Information.

Recommended Readings:

1. Bureaucracy, Martin Albrow, Macmillan.

2. Public Policy Making, Oxford University Press New Delhi –James Anderson.
3. Restructuring Public Administration, Jawahar publishers, Delhi-Mahit Bhattacharya.
4. Administrative Thinkers, New Delhi, Macmillan .S.R. Maheshari.
5. Public Administration and Public Affairs, Prentice Hall, New Delhi –Nicolas Henry.
7. Administrative Theories and Politics –Peter Self.
8. The Ecology of Public Administration –F. Riggs.
9. Public Administration –Mohit Bhattacharya.
10. Comparative and Development Administration – Ramesh Arora & Sangeeta Sharma.
12. Indian Administration –S.R. Maheswari.
13. New Horizons of Public Administration –Mohit Bhattacharya.
14. Indian Administration: Perceptions and Perspectives –R.K.Arora.
15. Public Administration in India –Padma Ramachandran.
16. A Dictionary of Public Administration –S, R, Maheshari.
17. Administrative Reforms in India –S. R. Maheshari.
18. Development Administration –Ashok Chandra.

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19. Public Administration in the Globalisation Era –Uma Medhury.
20. Good Governance and Development –Prabhat Datta & Payel Sen.
21 .The Reinvesting Government –D. Osborne & P. Huchinson .
22. Development policy and Administration-Kuldeep Mathur.
23. Public Personnel Administration, Harper and Row.
24. Development Administration in India –V.A. Pai Panandiker.
25. Development Administration –R.K. Sapru.
26. The Ecology of Administration –F.W. Riggs.
27. Modernity and Bureaucracy; Public Administration Review F.W. Riggs.
28. The Essential of Public Administration –E. N. Gladden.
29. The Theory Organisation: Readings in Public Administration –M. Weber.
30. Ideas and Issues in Public Administration: A Book of Readings –D. Waldo
31. The Function of the Executive –C.I. Barnard.
32. Indian Administration –Kamala Prasad.
33. Administrative Reforms in India –S.R. Maheswari.
34. Local Government in India, Orient Longman, New Delhi –S.R. Maheshari.
35. Indian Administration World Press, Calcutta –Mohit Bhattacharya.
36. Decentralisation and Local Politics, sage New Delhi –S.N. Jha & P.C. Mathur.
37. Public Personnel Administration, Harper and Row, -Stahl Glen.
38. Bureaucratic Administration in, Chugh Publications, Allahabad,-S.K. Goyal.
39. Systematic Training for Civil Services, Gyan publications, New Delhi,-A. N. Chakravarty.
40. Dynamics of Personnel Administration, Bombay,-M. N.Rudrabasabraj.
41. Administration of Rural Development in India, Sterling, New Delhi –Hoshiar Singh.
42. Public Administration: From Government to Governance: Bidyut Chakrabarty & Praksh Chand.
43. Indian Institute of Public Administration Journal.
44. Public Administration in Theory and Practice; M.P.Sharma, B.L.Sadana & Harpreet Kaur
45. Public Administration: Avasthi and Maheswari
46. Public Administration: B.L. Fadia
47. Public Administration Vishnu Bhagawan and Vidya Bhusan
48. Public Administration: K.K. Ghai
49. New Horizons of Public Administration: Nicholas Henry
50. Public administration in India: Siuli Sarkar
51. Modern Public Administration: Felix A. Nigro & Lioyd G. Nigro
52. Theory and Practice of Public Administration: Smita Srivastav
53. Public administration in India: Ramesh K. Jha
54. Personnel Administration in India: S.L.Goel
55. Financial Administration: M.J.K Thavraj
56. Administrative Reforms: G. E. Gladden
57. Public Policy: R.K. Sapru
58. Public Policy: Bidyut Chakrabarty
59. Public Administration in a Globalizing World: Bidyut Chakrabarty and Prakash Chand

Paper- 02, (Paper Code: POLI-402): Comparative Public Administration

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Unit-I Factors responsible to the rise and growth of comparative Public Administration,
Meaning, Approaches and trends-Contribution of F.W. Riggs in Comparative Public
Administration.
Unit-II Administrative system of Developed Countries: USA, UK, France, Japan (Structure,
Settings and process)
Unit-III Administrative system of Developing Countries: Bangladesh, Pakistan (Structure,
Settings and process)
Unit-IV Administrative system of Socialistic Countries: China (Structure, Settings and process)

Recommended Readings:
1. Comparative Public Administration; An Ecological Perspective, New Delhi, associated Publication, 1972
–R.K.Arora.
2. Public Administration; a Comparative Perspective, New York, Ferrell Heady.
3. Public Administration in the Third World, New York, Green Wood Press –V. Subramanian.
4. Comparative Public Administration, New Delhi –S.P. Verma & S. K. Sharma.
5. Comparative Public Administration, New Delhi, Sterling V. N. Viswanathan.
6. A Handbook of Comparative and development Administration, New York, Mercel Dekker –Farazman.
7. The Ecology of Public Administration, Mumbai, Asia Publishing House, Fred Riggs.
8. Prismatic Society Revisited Morristown, General Learning Press, Fred Riggs,
9. The Dynamic of Public Administration: Guidelines to Current Transformations in Theory and Practice,
New York, Holt, Rainhart and Winston –G. Caiden .The Politics of Democracy: A Comparative
Perspective, New Longman –B. Guy Peter.
10. Administrative Accountability, New Delhi, IIPA, 1984.
11. Bureaucracy, London, Macmillan, M. Albrow .
12. Political and Administrative Changing Societies, New Delhi, Associated Press –Romesh K Arora
13. Information Management in Government, New Delhi, Concept U.K. Banerjee.
14. Bureaucracy in Modern Society: New York, Random House, P.M. Balu.
15. Development Administration: Concepts, Goals, Methods, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press -G.
F. Grant.

Paper-03, (Paper Code: POLI-403): Personnel and Financial Administration

Unit-I: Personnel Administration: Types of Bureaucracy, Position Classification and Rank

Classification, Classification in India, Recruitment, Training, Promotion, Discipline, Morale,
Advancement, Transfer and Reassignment, (UK, USA & France) Pay and Service Conditions,

Unit-II: Neutrality and anonymity: UK and USA; Administrative Ethics, Employee- Employer
Relationship; Generalist vs. Specialist; Ministerial-Secretary Relationship, Role of Civil Services
in Developing Countries

Unit-III: Administrative Corruption: Redressal of Citizen’s Grievances, Forms of Corruption and

strategies of Anti-corruption, Lok Pal and Lakayukta (India, UK and USA) - Role of CBI and other
agencies.

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Unit-IV: Budget, Accounting and Audit: Concepts and Principles, System of Budget-Line item,
Performance, Programme Budgeting-PPBS, Formulation of Budget-Agencies, Stages, Execution
of Budget; Accounting-Meaning, Objectives and different methods; Audit-Concepts, Types, Audit
system in India, Parliamentary Control over Finances- Financial Committees.

Unit-V: Planning: Composition, objectives and purposes; Planning formulation, Implementation

and Evaluation; Planning Commission (NITI Aayog) and National Development Council; State
Planning Board, District Planning Board; Administrative Reforms Commission.

Recommended Readings:

1.Bromleye Simon (ed );Governing the European Union , Sage and Open University perss,2001.
2. Burkhead, Jesse, governing the budgeting, John Wiley and Sons, New York.
3. Cunning, Maurice W., the Theory and Practice of Personnel Management in India, Heiman, London
4. Dey, Bata, K. Bureaucracy, Development and Public Management in India, Uppal , New Delhi, 1990.
5. Dwivedi, O.P. & Jain, R.B., India Administration State, Gitanjali Publishing House, New Delhi,
1985.Garret, John, Managing the Civil Service, Heiman, London.
6. Gladden, E.N. British Civil Service, Its problems and Future, Frank Cass, London.
7. Hanson, A.N., The process of Planning.
8. Nigro, F., Modern Public Administration, Harper and Row, New York.
9. Paul Pigors & Charles, Myers, Personnel Administration, McGrawHill, New Delhi.
10. Pfiffner & Presthus, Public Administration: Principles and practice.
11. Robson, W.A., (Ed), civil service in England and France, Hogarth
12. Public Administration: From Government to Governance: Bidyut Chakrabarty & Praksh Chand.
13. Indian Institute of Public Administration Journal.
14. Public Administration in Theory and Practice; M.P.Sharma, B.L.Sadana & Harpreet Kaur
15. Public Administration: Avasthi and Maheswari
16. Public Administration: B.L. Fadia
17. Public Administration Vishnu Bhagawan and Vidya Bhusan
18. Public Administration: K.K. Ghai
19. New Horizons of Public Administration: Nicholas Henry
20. Public administration in India: Siuli Sarkar
21 Modern Public Administration: Felix A. Nigro & Lioyd G. Nigro
22. Theory and Practice of Public Administration: Smita Srivastav
23. Public administration in India: Ramesh K. Jha
24. Personnel Administration in India: S.L.Goel
25. Financial Administration: M.J.K Thavraj
26. Administrative Reforms: G. E.Gladden
27. Public Policy: R.K. Sapru
28. Public Policy: Bidyut CHakrabarty
29. Public Administrtion in a Globalizing World: Bidyut Chakrabarty and Prakash Chand

Paper-04, (Paper Code: POLI-404): Rural and Urban Local Administration in India

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Unit-I: Meaning, Nature, Scope and Significance of Rural Local-Self Administration in India.
Panchayat Raj: Evolution, Trends, Structure, Functions in India; Patterns of Panchayat Personnel,
Finance and Participation of Women in Panchati Raj system.

Unit-II: Approaches to Rural Development-Current Rural Development Programmes- Role of

NGOs and Information Technology, Planning for Rural development and Rural Development
Problems - Poverty Alleviation Programmes and its Agencies.

Unit-III: State-Local Relationship, Local Government systems in Socialist Countries, Central

control over the Local Bodies- Legislative Control, Judicial Control, Administrative control (India,
UK, USA and France).

Unit-IV: Defining Urban Local Administration-Evolution and status of Unban Local Government
in India- Structure and Functions of Municipal Administration, Municipal Personnel, Municipal
Finance, Problems and Issues of Municipal Administration.

Unit-V: Urbanization- Municipal Councils-Municipal Corporations-Urban personnel System-

Ministry of Urban Development Planning and Authorities – Urban Poverty Alleviation.

Recommended Readings:

1. American Local Government and Administration, Macmillan, New York –Alderfer, Harold F.
2. Local Government in Developing Countries, McGraw Hill, New York, Alderfer Harold F.
3. Management of Urban government in India –Mohit Bhattacharjee.
4. State – Municipal Relations, Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi –Mohit
Bhattacharyya.
5. The Government of France, Thomas Crowell Company, New York –J. Blondel.
6. Cities, Poverty and Development, Urbanisation in the Third world -Gilbert, Alan.
7. Municipal France in India, IIPA, New Delhi –Datta, Avijit.
8. The New Localism, Sage, London –Goetz, E.g. & Clarke, s. E (Ed).
9. The Machinery of Local Government Macmillan, New York –Jacson, R. M.
10. Decentralisation and local Politics –Jha, S. N. & Mathur , P.C. (ed ).
11. Local Government in India, Orientman, New Delhi – S. R. Maheshari.
12. Theory of Local Government in England, Sterling, New Delhi –Muttalib, M.A. & Khan, M.A.A.
13. Municipal Finance in India ;Present Status and Future Prospects, Manohar Publication , New Delhi,
Mathur M. P.
14. Municipal personnel Administration, IIPA, New Delhi.-Mukhapadhaya A.
15. Metropolitan City Governance in India, Sage, New Delhi –Pinto, M.R.
16. Local Government Explained –Seely I.R.
17. Rural Development; Putting the last first, London, Longman –Chambers, Robert.
18. Management of Rural Development, New Delhi, Oxford –Desai D.k.
19. Rural Development, Principal Policies and Management, Sage, New Delhi –Sing, Katar.
20. Rural Development Administration in India –Dubhasi, P.R.
21. Rural Administration in India; A public Policy Approach, New Delhi, Sage-Mahewari, S.R.

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Paper Elective-05, (Paper Code: POLI-405): Field Survey and Dissertation

Dissertation and Project will be prepared on the basis of Study tour programme/ Field
survey.

Knowledge based

Paper Elective-06 (Paper Code: POLI-406): Research Methodology: Methods and

Techniques

Group-A:

Unit-I: Research Methodology: Nature of Social Research- Objectivity in Social Research-

Definition of Research, Characteristics and objectives; Types of Research; The Research Problem-
Meaning of Research Problem, Selecting the Problems and Needs for defining the Problem.

Unit-II: Research and Sampling Design: Concept of Research Design- Need and features of Good
Research Design-Types of Research Design; Steps in Sampling Design-Criteria for Selecting a
Sampling Procedure-Different Types of sampling Designs of sampling Design-basic features of
Good sample Design.

Unit-III: Measurement Techniques: Concept of Validity and Reliability-Methods of Data

Collection; Hypothesis, Testing and Case Study method.

Group - B:

Unit-IV Basic Statistical Techniques: Univariate analysis-Mean, Median, Mode, Standard

Deviation, Mean Deviation; Bi-variate and Multi-variate analysis-Correlation Coefficient
Correlation, Product Moment, Rank Order, Regression, Hypothesis Testing, F-Test, Z-Test, Chi-
square Test.

Group - C: 10 Marks (Internal Assessment)

Unit- V: Writings Techniques of Citation, Referencing, Bibliography, Research Report and

Overview of Literature: Field Survey and Dissertation.

Recommended Readings:

1. Methodology and Economics –John Pheby.

2. Research Methodology – C. R. Kothari and Gaurav Garg.
3. Method in Social Research –Goode & Hatt.
4. Social Research Methods –N. Lawrence Neuman.

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 5. Scientific Social Survey and Research –Pauline V. Young.
6. Research Methods –Ram Ahuja.
7. Practice of Social Research – D. K. Lal Das.
8. Methods of Political Inquiry – Rakhahari Chatterjee.
9. Methodology and Techniques of Social Research –Wilkilson & Bhandarkar.
10. Methodology of Social Science –Max Weber.
11. Methodology in Social Research –Partha Mukherjee.
12. Research Methodology: A Step by Guide for Beginners- Pagadala Suganda Devi
13. Research Methodology: Ranjit Kumar
14. Introducing Research Methodology: Uwe Flick
15. An Introduction to Qualitative Research: Uwe Flick
16. Statistics for Behavioural and Social Science: Banamali Mohanty
17. Social Research Methods: Alan Bryman
18. Qualitative Research Methods for Social Sciences: Bruce L Berg
19. Research Methodology: R. Paneerselvam
20. The Literature Review: Six Steps to Success- Lawrence A. Machi and Brenda T. McEvoy
21. Fundamentals of Research Methodology and Statistics: Y.K. Singh
22. Research Methods in Social Relations: Charles M. Judd
23. Research Methodology: The Aims, Practices, and Ethics of Science- Peter Pruzan
24. When to Use What Research Design: Dianne C. Gardner, Lynne M. Haeffele, W. Paul Vogt
25. Introduction to Social Research: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches- Keith Punch
26. A Practical Guide to Research Methods: A User-friendly Manual- Catherine Dawson
27. Social Science Methodology: A Unified Framework- John Gerring
28. Measurement, Design, and Analysis: An Integrated Approach- Elazar J. Pedhazur and Liora
Pedhazur Schmelkin

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