Topic: Paper 2 – Indian government and politics – Planning and Economic Development Question Explain the following: (300 words) a. Gandhian perspective of development b. Nehruvian perspective of development Next Topic Paper 2- Indian government and politics – Planning and Economic Development
Topic: EQUALITY Question Is there a conception of equality in Marxist thought. Explain. (200 words) Next Topic Paper 2- Indian government and politics – Planning and Economic Development
Topic: EQUALITY Question Explain in 200 words a) equality of resources b) equality of capabilities Next Topic EQUALITY
Topic: EQUALITY Question For Ronald Dworkin, Equality is the sovereign virtue. Comment. (200 words) Next Topic EQUALITY
Topic: EQUALITY Question Explain the idea of complex equality proposed by Michael Walzer. (200 words) Next Topic EQUALITY
Topic: EQUALITY Question Differentiate between equality of welfare and equality of opportunity. (200 words) Next Topic EQUALITY
Topic: EQUALITY Question In western political thought, liberty and equality will always be in an eternal tension. Comment. (300 words) Next Topic EQUALITY
Topic: IDEOLOGY Question Human societies secrete ideology as the very element and atmosphere indispensable to their historical respiration and life. (Althusser). Comment. (200 words) Next Topic EQUALITY
Topic: IDEOLOGY Question Comment on false consciousness in Marxist thought. (200 words) Next Topic IDEOLOGY
Topic: IDEOLOGY Question Explain the conception of ideology in the writings of Karl Marx. (200 words) Next Topic IDEOLOGY
Topic: IDEOLOGY Question Does Fukuyama’s End of History thesis celebrate an end of ideology? Critically analyse. (200 words) Next Topic IDEOLOGY
Topic: LEGITIMACY Question Explain the relation between constitutionalism and legitimacy in liberal democracies. (200 words) Next Topic IDEOLOGY
Topic: LEGITIMACY Question Comment on a) Legitimation crisis in the works of Jurgen Habermas (150 words) b) David Held’s conception of Legitimacy. (150 words) Next Topic LEGITIMACY
Topic: HEGEMONY Question Explain the difference between hegemony and domination in Gramsci. (UPSC 2013/200 words) Next Topic LEGITIMACY
Topic: HEGEMONY Question How would you relate the feminist conceptualization of patriarchy to the concept of hegemony. (200 words) Next Topic HEGEMONY
Topic: HEGEMONY Question Discuss the idea of legitimate power. How does the concept of hegemony complicate the notion of legitimacy? (200 words) Next Topic HEGEMONY
Topic: AUTHORITY Question What is authority? How is ‘authority’ in a conservative tradition different from the liberal idea of authority. (200 words) Next Topic HEGEMONY
Topic: AUTHORITY Question Erosion of authority can pave way for totalitarian rule. Comment. (200 words) Next Topic AUTHORITY
Topic: POWER Question Explain the notion of Power in Marx and Weber (UPSC 2011/ 200 words) Next Topic AUTHORITY
Topic: POWER Question Politics is a concept driven by power. Comment. (200 words) Next Topic POWER
