Paper XIII: Political Institutions and Processes in Comparative Perspective
Paper XIV: Public Policy and Administration in India
Paper XV: Global Politics Paper
SEMESTER 4
PAPERXII Political Institutions and Processes in Comparative Perspective
Course Objective:
In this course students will be trained in the application of comparative
methods to the study of politics. The course is comparative in both
what we study and how we study.
In the process courseaims to introduce undergraduate students to some of the
range of issues, literature, and methods that cover comparative politics.
I. Approaches to Studying Comparative Politics (11 Lectures)
Traditional Institutional, Political Systems, Political Culture and New Institutionalism
II. Electoral System (08 Lectures)
Definition and procedures: Types of electoral systems (First Past the Post, Proportional
Representation, Mixed Representation)
III. Party System (08 Lectures)
Historical contexts of emergence of the party system and types of parties
IV. Nation-state (12 Lectures)
What is a nation-state?
Historical evolution in Western Europe and postcolonial contexts
‘Nation’ and ‘State’: debates
V. Democratization (10 Lectures)
Process of democratization in postcolonial, post-authoritarian, and post communist countries
VI. Federalism (11 Lectures)
Historical contest
Federation and Confederation: debates around territorial division of power.
Essential Readings
I: Approaches to Studying Comparative Politics
Almond, G. A. (ed.) (2000) ‘Comparing Political Systems’, in Gabriel A. et al. (eds.)
ComparativePolitics Today: A World View.
New York: Longman, pp. 39-46.
Pennington, M. (2009) ‘Theory, Institutions and Comparative Politics’, in Bara, J. and
Pennington, M. (eds.)
Comparative Politics: Explaining Democratic System. Sage, New
Delhi, pp 13-40.
Hall, P. And Taylor, Rosemary C. R. (1996) ‘Political Science and the Three New
Institutionalisms’,
Political Studies. XLIV, pp. 936-957.
Rosamond, B. (2005) ‘Political Culture’, in Axford, B. et al. (eds.)
Politics, London:
Routledge, pp. 57-81.
Howard, M. (2009) ‘Culture in Comparative Political Analysis’, in Lichback, M. I. and
Zuckerman, A. S. (eds.)
Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 134-161.
Fisher, J. R. (2011) ‘Systems Theory and Structural Functionalism’, in Ishiyama, J. T. and
Breuning, M. (eds.)
21st Century Political Science: A Reference Handbook. Los Angeles:
Sage, pp. 71-80.
Rakner, L. and Vicky, R. (2011) ‘Institutional Perspectives’, in Burnell, P. et.al. (eds.)
Politics in the Developing World.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 53-70.
II: Electoral System
Moser, R. G. and Ethan, S. (2004) ‘Mixed Electoral Systems and Electoral System Effects:
Controlled Comparison and Cross-national Analysis’,
Electoral Studies. 23, pp. 575–
599.
Heywood, A. (2002) ‘Representation, Elections and Voting’, in
Politics. New York:
Palgrave, pp. 223-245.
Evans, Jocelyn A.J. (2009) ‘Electoral Systems’, in Bara, J. and Pennington, M. (eds.)
Comparative Politics.
New Delhi: Sage, pp. 93-119.
III: Party System
Cole, A. (2011) ‘Comparative Political Parties: Systems and Organizations’, in Ishiyama,
John T. and Breuning, M. (eds.)
21st Century Political Science: A Reference Book. Los
Angeles: Sage, pp. 150-158.
Criddle, B. (2003) ‘Parties and Party System’, in Axtmann, R. (ed.)
Understanding
Democratic Politics: An Introduction.
London: Sage, pp. 134-142.
Heywood, A. (2002) ‘Parties and Party System’ in
Politics. New York: Palgrave, pp. 247-
268.
Boix, Ch. and Stokes, S. (eds.) (2007)
Handbook of Comparative Politics, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, pp. 499-521; 522-554
IV: Nation-state
O’Conner, W. (1994) ‘A Nation is a Nation, is a State, is a Ethnic Group, is a…’, in
Hutchinson, J. and Smith, A. (eds.)
Nationalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.
36-46.
McLennan, G. Held, D. and Hall, S. (1984)
The Idea of Modern State. Philadelphia: Open
University Press, ch. 1.
Heywood, A. (2002), ‘The State’, in
Politics. New York: Palgrave, pp. 85-102
Newton, K. and Deth, Jan W. V. (2010) ‘The Development of the Modern State’, in
Foundations of Comparative Politics: Democracies of the Modern World.
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pp. 13-33.
Sorensen, G. (2008) ‘Globalization and Nation-State’, in Caramani, D. (ed.)
Comparative
Politics.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 602-624.
V: Democratization
Landman, T. (2003) ‘Transition to Democracy’, in
Issues and Methods of Comparative
Methods: An Introduction.
London: Routledge, pp. 185-215.
Newton, K. and Deth, Jan W. V. (2010) ‘Democratic Change and Persistence’, in
Foundations of Comparative Politics: Democracies of the Modern World.
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pp. 53-67.
Haynes, J. (1999) ‘State and Society’, in
The Third World Politics. Oxford: Blackwell, pp.
20-38; 39-63.
Smith, B.C. (2003) ‘Democratization in the Third World’, in
Understanding Third World
Politics: Theories of Political Change and Development.
London: Palgrave Macmillan,
pp. 250-274.
VI: Federalism
Burgess, M. (2006)
Comparative Federalism: Theory and Practice. London: Routledge, pp.
9-49; 135-161.
Saxena, R. (2011) ‘Introduction’, in Saxena, R (eds.)
Varieties of Federal Governance:
Major Contemporary Models.
New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, pp. xii-xl.
Watts, R. L. (2008) ‘Introduction’, in
Comparing Federal Systems. Montreal and Kingston:
McGill Queen’s University Press, pp. 1-27; 29-62.
Additional Readings
Newton, K. and Deth, Jan W. V. (2010)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: Democracies
of the Modern World.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kamrava, M. (2003)
Understanding Comparative Politics: A Frame Work of Analysis.
London: Routledge.
Ishiyama, J. T. and Breuning, M. (eds.) (2011)
21st Century Political Science: A Reference
Handbook.
Los Angeles: Sage.
Gallagher, M. and Mitchell, P. (eds.) (2005)
The Politics of Electoral System. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Caramani, D. (ed.) (2008)
Comparative Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 85-
107; 263-289; 293-317; 318-347.
Burnell, P. et. al. (eds.) (2008)
Politics in the Developing World. New Delhi: Oxford, pp.
223-240; 257-276.
Hague, R. and Harrop, M
. (2004) Comparative Government and Politics: An Introduction.
London: Palgrave, pp. 17-34.
Bara, J. and Pennington, M. (eds.) (2009)
Comparative Politics. New Delhi: Sage, pp. 69-92;
201-226.
Stepan, A. L., Juan J. and Yadav, Y. (2011)
Crafting State-Nations: India and other
Multinational Democracies
. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, pp. 1-38.
Evans, P. et. al. (eds.) (1985)
Bringing the State Back In. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge, pp. 169-187.
Axford, Barrie. et al. (eds.) (2005)
Politics. London: Routledge, pp. 204-220.
Wiarda, H. J. et al. (eds.) (2005)
Comparative Politics: Critical Concepts in Political
Science.
London: Routledge, pp. 150-169; 440-456.
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Paper XIV Public Policy and Administration in India
Course Objective:
The course seeks to provide an introduction to the interface between
public policy and administration in India. It emphasis issues of democracy, social welfare and
financial accountability from a non-western perspective.
I. Public policy (12 Lectures)
(a) Concept, theories and relevance
(b) Formulation, implementation and evaluation
II. Decentralization (12 Lectures)
(a) Meaning, approaches and perspectives
(b) Administrative, functional and fiscal decentralization
III. Public finance (12 Lectures)
(a) Budget
(b) Budgeting innovations
(c) Macro-economic adjustment.
IV. Citizens and Administration (12 Lectures)
(a) Bringing people closer to Administration: E-governance
(b) Meaning and forms of public accountability and redressal of public grievances: RTI,
Lokpal
V. Policies of Social Welfare (12 Lectures)
(a) Education: Sarv Siksha Abhiyan
(b) Health: NRHM
(c) Employment: MNREGA
Essential Readings
I. Public policy
Dye, T.R. (1984)
Understanding Public Policy. 5th Edition. U.S.A: Prentice Hall, pp. 1-44.
Sapru, R.K.(1996)
Public Policy: Formulation, Implementation and Evaluation. New
Delhi: Sterling Publishers, pp. 1-16.
Dror, Y. (1989)
Public Policy Making Reexamined. Oxford: Transaction
Publication, pp.3-24,73-128 and 129-216.
Wildavsky, A.(2004) ‘Rescuing Policy Analysis from PPBS’, in Shafritz, J.M. & Hyde,
A.C. (eds.) Classics of Public Administration. 5th Edition. Belmont: Wadsworth, pp.271-284.
II. Decentralization
(a) Meaning, approaches and perspectives
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Singh, S. and Sharma, P. (eds.) (2007) ‘Introduction’, in
Decentralization: Institutions and
Politics in Rural India.
New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp 1-36.
Manor, J. (1999) ‘Defining Terms’, in
The Political Economy of Democratic
Decentralization.
Washington D.C: The World Bank, pp. 15-23.
(b) Administration, Functional and Fiscal decentralization
Jayal, N.G.; Prakash, A. and Sharma, P. (2006)
Local Governance in India:
Decentralisation and Beyond.
New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-26.
III. Public finance
Erik-Lane, J. (2005)
Public Administration and Public Management: The Principal Agent
Perspective.
New York: Routledge, pp.1-28 and 48-76.
Denhardt, R.B.and Denhardt, J.V.(2009)
Public Administration. New Delhi: Brooks/Cole, pp.
194-230.
Henry, N.(1999)
Public Administration and Public Affairs. New Jersey:Prentice Hall,
pp 242-280.
Caiden, N.(2004) ‘ Public Budgeting Amidst Uncertainity and Instability’, in Shafritz, J.M. &
Hyde, A.C. (eds.)
Classics of Public Administration. Belmont: Wadsworth, pp.423-
433.
IV. Citizens and Administration
Readings:
(a) Bringing people closer to Administration: E-governance
Singh, A .and Prakash, G. (2008) ‘A New Public Management Perspective In Indian EGovernance
Intiatives’, in
Critical Thinking In E-Governance. Delhi: International
Congress of E-Governance.
(b) Meaning and forms of public accountability and redressal of public grievances: RTI,
Lokpal
Mukhopadyay, A. (2005) ‘Social Audit’, in
Seminar. No.551.
Jenkins, R. and Goetz, A.M. (1999) ‘Accounts and Accountability: Theoretical
Implications of the Right to Information Movement in India’, in
Third World
Quarterly.
June, pp. 603-622.
Sharma, P.K. & Devasher, M. (2007) ‘Right to Information in India’ in Singh, S. and
Sharma, P. (eds.)
Decentralization: Institutions and Politics in Rural India. New
Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 348-382.
V. Policies of Social Welfare
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(a) Education: Sarv Siksha Abhiyan
Sinha, A.
Is It Really Possible? Available at
www.india-seminar.com/2004/536/amarjeetsinha.htm
Dhir, J.
Beyond Resources.
Available at
www.india-seminar.com/2004/536/dhir jhingram.htm
(b) Health: NRHM
National Rural Health Mission (India)
.(2007) Reviewing two years of NRHM: Citizens
Report,
October, New Delhi. Available at
www.chsj.org/modules/download_gallery/dlc.php?file=442
(c) Employment: MNREGA
Kumar, A. Suna, B. and Pratap, S.
Responding to People’s Protests about Poverty:
Making and Implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
(NREGA) in India.
Available at www.chronicpoverty.org.
Paper XV Global Politics
Course Objective:
This course introduces students to the key debates on the meaning and
nature of globalization. It addresses political, economic, social, cultural and technological
dimensions of globalization. The course also seeks to impart an understanding of the key
contemporary global issues such as the proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological issues,
international terrorism, and issues pertaining to poverty, development and human security.
I. Globalisation: Conceptions and Perspectives (25 Lectures)
(a) Political, Cultural and Technological Dimensions
(b) Global Economy: Its Significance and Anchors
(c) Global Social Networks / Global Resistances
II. Contemporary Global Issues (35 Lectures)
(a) Ecological Issues: historical overview of international environmental agreements, climate
change, global commons debate.
(b) Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
(c) International Terrorism: non-state actors and state terrorism; war on terror.
(d) Poverty, Development and Human Security
Essential Readings
I. Globalization: Conceptions and Perspectives
(a) Political, Cultural and Technological Dimensions
Held, D. and McGrew, A. (eds.) (2002)
Global Transformations Reader: Politics,
Economics and Culture
. 2nd edn. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
(b) Global Economy: Its Significance and Anchors
Global Economy: Its Significance
Woods, N. (2005) ‘International Political Economy in an Age of Globalization’, inBaylis, J.
and Smith, S. (eds.)
The Globalization of World Politics. 3rd edn. New Delhi:Oxford
University Press, pp. 326-332.
Nicholson, M. (2002)
International Relations: A Concise Introduction. New York: Palgrave,
pp. 18-24.
Ravenhill, J. (ed.) (2008)
Global Political Economy. 2nd edn. New York: Oxford University
Press, pp. 18-24.
Global Economy: Anchors
I. Transnational Companies (TNCs)
II. International Monetary Fund (IMF)
III. World Bank
IV. World Trade Organisation (WTO)
Willetts, P. (2005) ‘Transnational Actors and the International Organizations in Global
Politics’, in Baylis, J. and Smith, S. (eds.) (2008)
The Globalization of World Politics:
An Introduction to International Relations
. 4th edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
pp
. 425-447.
Goddard, C.R. (2003) ‘The IMF’, in Goddard, C.R., Cronin, P. and Dash, K.C. (eds.)
International Political Economy: State-Market Relations in a Changing Global
Order
. 2nd edn. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.
Picciotto, R. (2003) ‘A New World bank for a New Century’, in Goddard, C.R., Cronin, P.
and Dash, K.C. (eds.)
International Political Economy: State-Market Relations in a
Changing Global Order
. 2nd edn. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.
Clegg, L.J. (1996) ‘The Development of Multinational Enterprises’, in Daniels, P.W. and
Lever, W.F. (eds.)
The Global Economy in Transition. London: Longman, pp. 103-34.
Viotti, P.R. and Kauppi, M.V. (2007)
International Relations and World Politics:
Security, Economy, Identity
. 3rd edn. New Delhi: Pearson Education, pp.344-346 and
389-390.
Narlikar, A. (2005)
The World Trade Organisation: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, pp. 22-98.
Winham, G.R. (2008) ‘The Evolution of the Trade Regime’, in Ravenhill, J. (ed.)
Global
Political Economy
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 152-171.
(c) Global Social Networks/ Global Resistances
Nicholson, M. (2002)
International Relations: A Concise iItroduction. New York:
Palgrave, pp. 185-204.
Viotti, P.R. and Kauppi, M.V. (2007)
International Relations and World Politics:
Security, Economy, Identity
. 3rd edn. New Delhi: Pearson Education, pp. 430-450.
Goldstein, J.S. (2003)
International Relations. New Delhi: Pearson Education, pp. 351
354 and 366-375.
Gordon, L. and Halperin, S. (2003) ‘Effective Resistance to Corporate Globalisation’, in
Gordon, L. and Halperin, S. (eds.)
Global Civil Society and its Limits. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-24.
O’Brien, R. Goetz, A.M. Scholte, J.C. and Williams, M. (2000)
Contesting Global
Governance
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-23.
Thomas, C. (2008) ‘Globalisation and Development in the South’, in Ravenhill, J. (ed.)
Global Political Economy
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 410-447.
II. Contemporary Global Issues
(a) Ecological Issues
Greene, O. (2005) ‘Environmental Issues’, in Baylis, J. and Smith, S. (eds.) (2008)
The
Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations
. 4th edn.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp
. 451-478.
Nicholson, M. (2002)
International Relations: A Concise Introduction. New York:
Palgrave, pp. 175-181.
Viotti, P.R. and Kauppi, M.V. (2007)
International Relations and World Politics:
Security, Economy, Identity
. 3rd edn. New Delhi: Pearson Education, pp. 430-450.
(b) Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Howlett, D. (2005) ‘Nuclear Proliferation’, in Baylis, J. and Smith, S. (eds.) (2008)
The
Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations
. 4th edn.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp
. 499-519.
Viotti, P.R. and Kauppi, M.V. (2007)
International Relations and World Politics:
Security, Economy, Identity
. 3rd edn. New Delhi: Pearson Education, pp.238-250 and
259-263
.
(c) International Terrorism
Viotti, P.R. and Kauppi, M.V. (2007)
International Relations and World politics:
Security, Economy, Identity
. 3rd edn. New Delhi: Pearson Education, pp. 275-290.
Vanaik, A. (2007) ‘Political Terrorism and the US Imperial Project’, in
Masks of Empire.
New Delhi: Tulika Books, pp. 103-128.
Halliday, F. (2004) ‘Terrorism in Historical Perspective’,
Open Democracy, 22 April.
[Online] DOI:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict/article_1865.jsp (Accessed:
13 October 2011).
(d) Poverty, Development and Human Security
Thomas, C. (2005) ‘Poverty, Development, and Hunger’, in Baylis, J. and Smith, S.
(eds.)
The Globalization of World Politics. 3rd edn. New Delhi: Oxford University
Press,pp. 645-668.
Nicholson, M. (2002)
International Relations: A Concise Introduction. New York:
Palgrave.
Viotti, P.R. and Kauppi, M.V. (2007)
International Relations and World Politics:
Security, Economy, Identity
. 3rd edn. New Delhi: Pearson Education, pp. 349-350.
Shahrbanou, T. and Chenoy, A. (2007)
Human Security. London: Routledge, pp. 13-19,
122- 127, and 237-243.
Wade, R.H. (2008) ‘Globalisation, Growth, Poverty, Inequality, Resentment, and
Imperialism’, in Ravenhill, J. (ed.)
Global Political Economy, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, pp. 373-409.
Additional Readings
Brown, C. (2001)
Understanding International Relations. 2nd edn. Basingstoke:
Palgrave.
Woods, N. (1996)
Explaining International Relations since 1945. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Castells, M. (2000)
The Rise of the Network Society. Oxford: Blackwell.
Porter, G. and Brown, J.W. (2002)
Global Environmental Politics. 3rd edn. Boulder:
Westview.
Buzan, B. and Herring, E. (1998)
The Arms Dynamic in World Politics. London: Lynne
Rienner.
Adams, N.B. (1993)
World Apart: The North-South Divide and the International System.
London: Zed.