SYLLABUS

DC- 3 Comparative Government and Politics

1. The nature, scope and methods of comparative political analysis (10 lectures)

2. Comparing Regimes: Authoritarian and Democratic (6 lectures)

3. Classifications of political systems:

a. Parliamentary and Presidential: UK and USA

b. Federal and Unitary: Canada and China (15 lectures)

4. Electoral Systems: First Past the Post, Proportional representation, Mixed systems (7 lectures)

5. Party Systems: One- party, Two- party and Multi- party systems (9 lectures)

6. Contemporary debates on the nature of states: From state centric security to human centric security and the changing nature of nation-state in the context of globalization. (13 lectures)