Political Science Most Important Questions Part 4 for 2023 Exam
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- Comment on productive forces and production relations. (200 words)
- Comment on overdeveloped state. (200 words)
- Explain the concept of “Congress System” as explained by Rajni Kothari. Can we say this is no more a relevant model to explain Indian Politics? (200 words)
- Comment on the idea of good represented by Aristotle. How is this different from the Platonic notion of good espoused through the theory of forms? (200 words)
- Comment on the notions of
- Falsification (150 words)
- Differentiate between normative and empirical political theory. (200 words⟋UPSC- 2012)
- Explain the difference between hegemony and domination in Gramsci. (UPSC 2013⟋200 words)
- Explain in 200 words
- Equality of resources
- Equality of capabilities
- Explain the idea of “collapse of the Indian state” in the works of Atul Kohli. (200 words)
- Passive revolution, conceived by Gramsci, is an important category to explain Indian Politics.Comment. (200 words)
- Do you agree with the idea that the Indian state is a neoliberal state. Substantiate. (200 words)
- What have been the recent trends in electoral behavior in India since 1990՚s? (200 words)
- Write short notes on the following in 150 words
- Location of Hegemony
- Knowledge is Power
- Answer in 300 words
- Explain how Mill tries to subsume justice under the concept of utility.
- What is the challenges Political theory faces in the present times. Suggest remedies to overcome it. (300 Words)
- “The true source of right is duty” – Gandhi.Comment (300 Words)
- Do you agree that the Behavioural approach appeared in order to counter the Marxist approach? (300 Words)
- Examine the relation between Justice, Equality and Liberty. (300 Words)
- What are the challenges Political theories faces in the present times. Suggest remedies to overcome it. (300 Words)
- “The true source of right is duty” – Gandhi.Comment (300 Words)
- Answer in approximately 150 words each
- “Women have always been man՚s dependent, if not his slave, the two sexes have never shared the world in equality” – Simone de Beauvoir.
- “Power flows throughout the system like blood in the capillaries of our body” – Foucault
- Relative autonomy of state
- Paternal despotism of Mill
- Ideologies as regimes of truth.
- Compare and contrast the pluralist & neo-pluralist conception of state. (200 Words)
- Examine the major debates in contemporary democratic theory. (250 words)
- Explain how deliberative democracy tries to improve the functioning of liberal democracies. (250 words)