MPSC Political Science Syllabus 2024

• Political theory: definitions and methods.
• Liberal, Neo-liberal, Marxist, Pluralist, Post-Colonial, and Feminist theories of state are among them.
• Justice: Ideas on justice with a focus on Rawl’s theory of justice and the criticisms made by communitarians.
• Social, political, and economic equality; affirmative action; the connection between equality and freedom.
• Theories and meanings of rights; several categories of rights; Human Rights Concept.
• Democracy: Representative, participatory, and deliberative are some of the kinds of democracy that are based on both traditional and modern beliefs.
• Hegemony, ideology, and legitimacy are concepts related to power.
• Political philosophies include feminism, liberalism, socialism, marxism, fascism, and gandhism.
• Indian Political Thought: Dharmashastra, Arthashastra, and Buddhist Traditions; M. K. Gandhi, B. R. Ambedkar, M. N. Roy, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, and Sri Aurobindo.
• Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, John S. Mill, Marx, Gramsci, and Hannah Arendt are known figures in Western political thought.

• Indian nationalism: (a) Political tactics used in the country’s freedom struggle, ranging from mass satyagraha to constitutionalism; non-cooperation; civil disobedience; militant and revolutionary movements; and peasant and worker movements. (b) Views on the Indian National Movement from Dalit, Radical Humanist, Socialist, and Marxist perspectives.
• The Indian Constitution was drafted taking into account various social and political viewpoints as well as the effects of British rule.
• The Preamble, Fundamental Rights and Duties, Directive Principles, Parliamentary System and Amendment Procedures, Judicial Review, and Basic Structure doctrine are some of the most important aspects of the Indian Constitution.
• (a) The three main branches of the union government are the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. (b) Principal Organs of the State Government: the Legislature, the Executive, and the High Courts—their intended functions and actual operations.
• Local government and Panchayati Raj are examples of grassroots democracy;
• The Election Commission, the Comptroller and Auditor General, the Finance Commission, the Union Public Service Commission, the National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Tribes, the National Commission for Women, the National Commission for Human Rights, the National Commission for Minorities, and the National Commission for Backward Classes are statutory institutions and commissions.
• Federalism: interstate conflicts; integrationist inclinations and regional aspirations; constitutional provisions; evolving center-state interactions.
• The Green Revolution, land reforms, and agrarian relations; liberalization and economic reforms; the role of planning and the public sector; Nehruvian and Gandhian ideas on planning and economic development.
• In Indian politics, caste, religion, and ethnicity all matter.
• Party System: Coalition politics patterns; national and local political parties; party ideologies and socioeconomic roots; pressure groups, voting patterns, and the shifting socioeconomic makeup of legislators.

• Limitations of the comparative method; Political economy and political sociology viewpoints; Comparative politics: nature and major techniques.
• Comparative Analysis of the State: Features and Changing Nature of the State in Societies with Advanced Industrial and Developing Economies, Capitalist and Socialist.
• Political parties, interest groups, and social movements are examples of representation and participation politics in developed and developing nations.
• Reactions of established and developing societies to globalization
• Theories such as idealist, realist, functionalist, Marxist, and systems theory are used to study international relations.
• Important International Relations Concepts: Globalization and the world capitalist economy; Transnational players and collective security; Power, security, and national interest; Deterrence and balance of power.
• International Political Order Shift
• The development of the international economic system: the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) and socialist economies from Brettonwoods to the World Trade Organization; desire for a new international economic order from the Third World; the expansion of the global economy.
• United Nations: Goals and operations of specialized agencies; expected and actual roles; necessity of UN reforms.
• The EU, ASEAN, APEC, AARC, and NAFTA represent the regionalization of global politics.
• Current World Issues: Gender Justice, Human Rights, Environment, and Democracy spread of nuclear weapons and terrorism.

• Indian Foreign Policy: Institutions that make policy, Foreign Policy Determinants, Change and Continuity.
• India’s Role in the Movement for Non-Alignment Various stages; Present position.
• South Asia and India: (a) Regional Cooperation: The SAARC’s historical performance and its outlook. (c) A Free Trade Area for South Asia. (c) The “Look East” strategy of India. (d) Barriers to regional collaboration include border disputes, ethnic wars and insurgencies, river water issues, and illicit cross-border migration.
• India’s place in the Global South: its ties to Latin America and Africa; its spearheading of the push for NIEO and WTO talks.
• China, Japan, the United States of America, and Russia as global power centers, and India
• India’s place in the UN peacekeeping system and its desire for a permanent seat in the Security Council are parts of the UN system.
• India and the Nuclear Issue: Shifting Views and Strategies.
• Recent changes in Indian foreign policy include the country’s stance on the current crises in Afghanistan, Iraq, and West Asia; the country’s expanding diplomatic ties with the US and Israel; and its vision for a new global order.

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