SYLLABUS

Major Course (MC)3 : Understanding Political Theory (4 Credits)

I. Introducing Political Theory(40 Lectures)

1.What is Politics: Theorizing the 'Political'

2.Traditions of political theory: Liberal, Marxist, Anarchist and Conservative

3.Approaches to Political Theory: Normative, Historical and Empirical

4.Critical and Contemporary Perspectives in Political Theory: Feminist and Postmodern

5.Concept of State Sovereignty: Monistic and Pluralistic Theories:  Critiques of Theory of Sovereignty: Globalization and crisis of Sovereignty

6.Political Obligation- Rights of Resistance(Locke, Laski, Green and Barker's views)

II. Political Theory and Practice (40 Lectures)

The Grammer of Democracy

1.Democracy: The history of an idea

2.Procedural Democracy and its critique

3.Deliberative Democracy

4.Participatory and Representative democracy