Comparative & Developmental Politics – I
Overview
Objectives:
The objective of this course is to make the students aware about the basic concepts and terminology oftenly used in the study of political systems and processes commonly in all the societies. Further, the students are to be prepared for making meaningful comparisons of various political systems with reference to their political functions, structures, cultures, development, processes etc.
Contents:
1. Approaches to comparative politics:
a. Traditional approach of its characteristics and critique.
b. Behavioral approach, its characteristics and critique.
2. Political system: definition, characteristics and functions. A detailed study of the models of political systems given by David Easton, and Almond Coleman.
3. Political Culture: meanings and scope, various kinds of political culture with reference to mass participations and civil-military relations.
Credit hours/ Marks:- 04 Cr. Hrs.
1. Arthur Hughes, American Government, 3rd ed., 1980.
2. Binder Leonard and others. Crisis and Sequences in Political Development, Princeton University Press, 1971.
3. David E. Apter, Introduction to Political Analysis, Cambridge: Winthrop Publishers, Inc., 1977
4. David Easton, The System Analysis of Political Life, New York, Wilde Latest Edition.
5. G. A. Almond, Comparative Politics, Princeton U.P., 1966.
6. G. M. Career, 6th ed., Major Foreign Powers, New York, 1972.
7. H. V. Wiseman, Political System Some Sociological Approaches, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966.
8. J. Coleman and Almond, The Politics of Developing Areas, Princeton, U.P. Latest Edition.
9. J. Sodano Michael; 2nd ed., Comparative Politics: A Global Introduction, 2004.
10. Macridis and Ward, Modern Political Systems (Asia) Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1976.
11. Roy. C. Macridis, Comparative Politics 4th ed., The Dorsey Press, 1972.
12. S.E. Finer, Comparative Governments: An Introduction to the Study of Politics (New Zealand: Penguin Books, 1970).