The Meghalaya Public Service Commission is the State Public Service Commission is provided under Article 315 read with Article 316 of the Constitution of India. Here is a Detailed Syllabus for MCS & MPS Main Exam Optional Paper - Political Science and International Relations.
MCS & MPS Mains Syllabus
Optional Paper - Political Science and International Relations
Paper‐I
Political Theory and Indian Politics
Section‐A
- Approaches to the study of political theory : historical, normative and empirical.
- Theories of state : Social contract, Liberal, Neo‐liberal, Marxist, communitarian, post‐colonial.
- State Sovereignty : Marxist and pluralistic theories; globalisation and the State.
- Democracy and Human Rights : Democratic theory‐classical and contemporary. Theories of Human Rights; Theories of Justice, Equality and Revolution, political obligation; New Social Movements.
- Theories of Political Culture; Culture and politics in Third World countries.
- Theories of Political Economy – Classical and contemporary.
- Political Idealogies : Nature of Idealogy; Liberalism, Socialism. Marxism, Fascism, Gandhism and Anarchism.
- Theories of Power and Hegemony : Pareto, Mosca, Mitchels, C. Wright Mills, Weber, Gramsci,
- Hannah Arendt.
- Indian Political Thought: Manu, Kautilya M.N. Roy Gandhi Ambedkar and E.V. Ramswami Naicker.
- Political Thought : Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, J.S. Mill, Hegel and Marx, Lenin, Rosa Luxemberg and Mao Zedong.
Section‐B
Indian Government and Politics
- Indian Nationalism : Dadabhai Naoroji, Tilak, Savarkar, Gandhi, Jayaprakash Narain, Nehru, Subhas Bose, Ambedkar, Ram Manohar Lohia.
- Nature and struggle of Indian freedom struggle : From constitutionalism to Mass Satyagraha, Revolutionary movements Non Co‐operation, Civil disobedience and Quit India, Indian Naval uprising, Indian National Army; role of women in freedom struggle.
- Socio‐economic dimensions of the nationalist movement : The communal question and the demand for partition; backward caste movements. Trade union and Peasant movements, Civil Rights movement.
- Landmarks in Constitutional Development during British Rule : Morley‐Minto Reforms; Montagu‐ Chelmsford Reforms; Simon Commission; Government of India Act, 1935; Cripps Mission : Indian
Independence Act, 1947.
- Salient Features of the Indian Constitution: The Preamble, Fundamental Rights and Duties,
Directive Principles; federalism, parliamentary system; amending procedures; judicial review.
- The Executive System in theory and practice : President, Prime Minister and the Council of
Ministers; Governor, Chief Minister and the State Council of Ministers. The Bureaucracy.
- Role and function of the Parliament and Parliamentary Committee‐Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha; changing socio economic profile.
- The Supreme Court and the High Courts; Judicial Activism; PIL.
- Statutory institutions/commissions – UPSC, Election Commission, Comptroller and Auditor
General, Backward Classes Commission, National Commission for women; National Human Rights
Commission; Minorities Commission.
- Party system : ideology and social base of parties; fragmentation and regionalisation. Pressure groups; patterns of coalition politics; trends in electoral behaviour.
- Class, caste, ethnicity and gender in Indian politics; politics of regionalism, communalism, backward class and Dalit movements, Tribal people movements, struggle for gender justice.
- Planning and Economic Development : Role of the Planning Commission; Planning in the era of liberalisation; political dimensions of economic reforms.
- Grassroots democracy : Panchayati Raj and municipal government; significance of 73rd and 74th
Amendments. Grass root movement and women’s empowerment.
Paper‐II
Comparative Politics and International Relations
Section‐A
Comparative Analysis and International Politics
- Approaches to the study of comparative politics : traditional approaches; political economy, political sociology or political system approaches; Nature of political process in the Third World.
- The Modern State : Evolution, the contemporary trends in the advanced industrial countries and the third world.
- Development : Strategies and contemporary discourse.
- Concepts of International politics : Power, national interest, balance of power, national security, collective security and peace.
- Theories of International politics Marxist, Realist, Systems, Decision‐making and Game Theory.
Political Science and International Relations
- Determinants of foreign policy : Domestic compulsions, geopolitics, geoeconomics and global order.
- Origin and contemporary relevance of the Cold War, nature of the post‐cold war global order.
- Major issues of world politics : Cuban Missile‐Crisis; Vietnam War, Oil Crisis, Afghan Civil War,
Gulf War, Collapse of the Soviet Union, Yugoslav Crisis.
- Non‐alignment : Concept and movement; Third World Movements for global justice, Non‐alignment in the post cold war era.
- The evolution of the international economic system – from Bretton woods to WTO, the North‐South dimension.
- International organisations UN and its specialised agencies : International Court of Justice; ILO,
UNICEF, WHO, UNESCO.
- Regional, organisations such as the ASEAN, APEC, EU, SAARC, NAFTA.
- Contemporary Global Concerns : Democracy, Human Rights, Ecology, Gender Justice, Global commons, Communication.
Section‐B
India and the World
- Indian Foreign Policy : Historical origins, determinants; the institutions of policy‐making; continuity and change.
- India and the Non‐Alignment Movement : Evolution and contemporary relevance. Socio‐political basis of non‐alignment‐domestic and global.
- Major issues in Indian foreign policy : Sino‐Indian Border War (1962); Indo‐Pakistan War (1971) and the liberation of Bangladesh; IPKF in Srilanka; India as military nuclear power (1998).
- Conflict and co‐operation in South Asia : India’s relations with Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh,
Nepal. Regional co‐operation and SAARC. Kashmir question in India’s foreign policy.
- India’s relation with Africa and Latin America.
- India and South East Asia; ASEAN.
- India and the major powers : USA, EU, China, Japan and Russia.
- India and the UN System : India’s role in UN Peace Keeping and global disarmament.
- India and the emerging international economic order; multilateral agencies – WTO, IMF, IBRD, ADB.
- India and the question of nuclear weapons : NPT and CTBT.
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