Syllabus of Political Science in Lucknow University

Will you please provide here syllabus for M.A. Political Science 1st Semester program of Lucknow University ?

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As you want I am here giving you syllabus for M.A. Political Science 1st Semester program of Lucknow University.

Syllabus for M.A. Political Science 1st Semester program :

Paper I : History Of Western Political Thought

Unit I
Political Institutions in Ancient Greece; General Characteristics of Pre-Scoratic
Greek Political Thought; The Sophists and their political ideas, Socrates.

Unit II
PLATO : Theory of Justice, Education and Communism; Rule of Philosophy of
the Philosopher King; Ideal State; Plato as the first Fascist; Utopianism or
Idealism; His views in ‘The Statesman’.
The Laws: Theory of Law and the Second best State.

Unit III
ARISTOTLE: Father of Political Science / Beginning of the Science of politics;
Theory of State; classification of Constitutions; Aristotle’s Theory of Citizenship,
Slavery, law of Justice and Revolution.
The Ideal State of Aristotle.
Post Aristotalian Schools Epicureans, Cynics and Stoics.

Unit IV
Political Thought of the Roman Age; Roman contribution to Political Thought;
Roman theory of Law; Roman Thinkers – Polybius, Cicero, and Seneca.


Paper II : Modern Political systems
Unit I
Comparative Politics – Meaning and nature; Approaches – Traditional,
Behavioural and Post-behavioural comparative politics and comparative
Government – Relation and distinction.

Unit II
Concept of Political System, Similarities and dissimilarities of Political System,
David Easton’s system analysis, Gabriel Almond’s structuralism – functionalism,
Alternative perspectives of system.

Unit III
Classification of Political Systems – Classification and contemporary; British and
American models, Dictatorship, Totalitarian Political Systems.

Unit IV
Political Development, Development and Nationalism, Modernization, under- development, Dependency – definitions and approaches, characteristics of
Western and Non-Western Political Systems.




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