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Semester 3 · Second Year · 4 credits

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Syllabus for Political Science II

Semester 3 · Second Year · 4 credits

Module I

  • Power, Authority and Legitimacy
  • 1.1 Power as a concept in Political Science
  • 1.1.1 Meaning and definitions of Power
  • 1.1.2 Exercise of political power and role of the Government in decision making
  • 1.1.3 External influences on Exercise of Political Power
  • (Role of Interests groups, Lobbying as a technique, Examples from India and the USA)
  • 1.1.4 Theories of Power- Elite theory and Marxist theory of Power (Specified)
  • 1.2 Authority as a Concept in Political Science
  • 1.2.1 Meaning and Features of Authority - De jure and De facto Authority
  • 1.2.2 Max Webber‘s Classification of Authority
  • 1.2.3 Sources – How is Power legalised?
  • 1.3 Comparative Study – Power and Authority (Specified)
  • 1.4 Legitimacy - Concept and Relevance of Legitimacy in the Exercise of Political Power

Module II

  • Political Obligation - State Authority and Citizen
  • 2.1 Concept of Political Obligation
  • 2.1.1 Command and Obedience Relationship
  • 2.1.2 Grounds of Political Obligations-Why do people obey laws?
  • 2.1.3 D.D. Raphael‘s views on Political Obligation.
  • 2.2 Theories of Political Obligation
  • 2.2.1 Divine Right Theory of Kings, Social Contract/ Consent Theory, Theory of Force,
  • 2.2.2 Theory of Prescriptive Possession, Views of Karl Marx (Specified)
  • 2.3 Problems of Obedience to Unjust Laws
  • 2.3.1 What is Unjust Law?
  • 2.3.2 Right to Resistance and Dissent – T.H. Green, M. K. Gandhi, Harlod Laski, Martin Luther King Jr and Nelson Mandela (New)
  • 2.3.3 Satyagraha – Gandhian Technique of Resistance against Unjust Laws
  • 2.4 Punishment – Objectives, Justification and Deviation
  • 2.4.1 Responsibility of the Modern State to Punish
  • 2.4.2 Philosophical underpinnings: Kant‘s Retributivism, Jeremy Bentham‘s Utilitarian
  • 2.4.3 Justification of Punishment
  • 2.4.4 Deterrent, & Preventive approaches
  • 2.4.5 Gandhian thought on Reformative Approach to Punish
  • 2.4.6 Implicit Biases in the Justice Delivery System , Social Injustice and Social Inequality
  • 2.4.7 Ethnic profiling in the European Union and US ,Case Study- Black Lives Matter Movement

Module III

  • Political Ideologies
  • 3.1 Liberalism
  • 3.1.1 Meaning and Definition, Basic Principles, Arguments in Favour and Against. Shift from Negative Liberty to Positive Liberty (Classical and ModernLiberalism)
  • 3.1.2 J.S Mill views on Liberty – Influence on Indian Constitution
  • 3.2 Utilitarianism
  • 3.2.1 Meaning and Definition, Basic Principles, Arguments in Favour and Against.
  • Jeremy Bentham‘s Views and J.S Mill‘s Modification of Benthamite Utilitarianism
  • Comparison to Sarvodaya (Specified)
  • 3.3 Socialism
  • 3.3.1 Meaning and Definition, Basic Principles, Arguments in Favour and Against.
  • Influence on Indian Constitution
  • 3.4 Communism
  • 3.4.1 Basic Principles and Evaluation of Communism
  • 3.4.2 Comparative Study of Socialism and Communism (Specified)
  • 3.4.3 Comparative Study of Gandhism and Communism (Specified)

Module IV

  • Indian Democracy at Work
  • 4.1 Significance of Political Parties in India
  • 4.1.1 Political Parties -Meaning, differences between Political Parties andInterest Groups
  • 4.1.2 Features of Political Parties in India
  • 4.1.3 Coalition Politics and Future of Multi- Party System in India
  • 4.2 Political Legitimacy and Democracy
  • 4.2.1 Democracy and the Consent of the Governed
  • 4.2.2 Conditions Essential for the Success of Democracy
  • 4.2.3 Ethical Decay of Democracy
  • 4.2.4 Challenges to Indian Democracy – Old and New
  • 4.3 Democratic Decentralisation and Local Governments
  • 4.3.1 Beginnings - Gandhian Gram Swaraj and Dr Ambedkar‘s Views Decentralisation
  • 4.2.2 Key features of Article 40, 73 and 74 Constitutional Amendments Gram rd th
  • Sabha and Participatory Democracy
  • 4.3.3 Implications for gender and social inclusion- Promises & Limitations

Recommended Resources

  • 1 Appadurai, A. (2021) How to kill a democracy. Social Anthropology https://doi.org/10.1111/1469‐ 8676.13041
  • 2 Austin, G. (1999) Indian Constitution: Corner Stone of a Nation, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
  • 3 Bachrach, P. and Baratz, M. (1962) Two Faces of Power. American Political Science Review, 56(04), pp.947-952.
  • 4 Basu, D.D (2005), An Introduction to the Constitution of India, New Delhi, Prentice Hall.
  • 5 Berry, N. (1981), An Introduction to Modern Political Theory, London: Macmillan.
  • 6 Dalton, D. (2012). Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action, New York: Columbia University Press
  • 7 Gauba O.P. (2009), An Introduction to Political Theory, New Delhi: Mac Millan
  • 8 Gokhale B. L. (1994), Political Science (Theory and Government Machinery), Mumbai: Himalayan Publishing House.
  • 9 Heywood, A. (1992). Political Ideologies: An Introduction, 6 ed., London: Palgrave th MacMillan
  • 10 Jayal, N.G. and Mehta, P.B. (eds.) (2010), The Oxford Companion to Politics in India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
  • 11 Laxmikanth M. (2016) Indian Polity for Civil Services Examinations, New Delhi: Tata McGraw Hills
  • 12 Manor, J. (2004) 'Democratisation with Inclusion: Political Reforms and People's Empowerment at the Grassroots', The Journal of Human Development, 5(1), pp. 5-29. Suggested Web Links: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/legitimacy/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Black-Lives- Matterhttps://www.amnesty.org/what-we-do-/detention/https://www.epw.in/elections-age- social-mediahttps://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/ethnic-profiling-a-persisting-practice- in-europehttps://www.justiceinitiative.org/publications/ethnic-profiling-european-union- pervasiveineffective-and-discriminatory

Reproduced from the University of Mumbai Revised Syllabus for LL.B. (5 years) Five Years Integrated Course (CBCS), in force from the academic year 2022-23 and amended in June 2023. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.

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