Wednesday, January 22, 2014

POLITICAL SCIENCE Syllabus

POLITICAL SCIENCE 
Total Marks - 200
PAPER I (Marks - 100)
PART 'A'
1. Political Theory
    (i) Western Political Thought
    Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Bentham, Mill, Marx, Lenin, Mao
    (ii) Muslim Political Thought
    AI-Farabi, Al-Mawardi, Nizam-ul-Mulik Tusi, Al-Ghazali, Ibn-I-Khaldun, Iqbal
PART ‘B’
2. The nature and emergence of Modern state system, Islamic concept of state.
3. Political concepts, Sovereignty, Law, Liberty, Equality, Rights and Duties.
4. Political Dynamics: Public Opinion, Propaganda, Political Parties, Pressure Groups.
5. Political Institutions: Legislature, Executive, Judiciary. Political Elites, Civil and Military Bureaucracy.
6. Forms of Government: Monarchy, Democracy. Dictatorship Unitary and Federal, Presidential and Parliamentary.
7. Totalitarianism: Fascism, Communism.
8. Local Self-government: Theory and Practice with special reference to Pakistan.

PAPER-II (Marks - 100)
PART ‘A’
1. Selected Political Systems: Nature and dynamics of major political institutions in U.S.A., U.K., France and Former Soviet Union,
PART ‘B’
2. Political Systems of developing countries: Turkey, Iran, India and China.
3. Rise of Muslim Nationalism in South Asia with special reference to the role of Sir Syed Abmed Khan, lqbal and Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
4. A comparative and critical analysis of the 1956, 1962, 1973 and 1985 Constitutions of Pakistan.
    SUGGESTED READINGS
     TitleAuthor
    1
    History of Muslim PhilosophyM.M. Sharif
    2
    Constitutional Development in PakistanG.W. Choudhry
    3
    Comparative Politics; A World ViewAlmond & Powell
    4
    Contemporary Political AnalysisGarles Worth James
    5
    Government & Parliament: A Survey from the InsideHerbert Morrison
    6
    Government and Politics in PakistanMushtaq Ahmed
    7
    History of Political TheoryGeorge H. Sabine
    8
    History of Political TheoriesWilliam A. Dunning
    9
    Political Thought in Medieval IslamRosenthal
    10
    Modern Islamic StateRosenthal
    11
    Political Thought in PerspectiveWilliam Edenstein
    12
    Pattern of GovernmentSamuel H. Beer & Adam B. Ullam
    13
    Pakistan: A Political StudyKeith Callard
    14
    Politics, Parties and Pressure GroupsV.O. Key Jr.
    15
    Modern Political Systems: AsiaRoy, C. Macradis (ed)
    16
    Politics in Pakistan: Nature and Direction of ChangeKhalid Bin Sayeed
    17
    Reflection on GovernmentEarnest Barker
    18
    South-East Asia Political SystemLucian W. Pye
    19
    The Political System of PakistanKhalid Bin Sayeed
    20
    Nizam-ul-Mulk Tusi, Published by Muhammad Ashraf, Lahore, 1978Rizvi, S. Rizwan Ali
    21
    Nizam-ul-Mulk Tusi (Urdu), Karachi University 1995Prof. Dr. Rizwan Ali Rizvi

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