University Of Mumbai Ma in Political Science

Hello, Can you please tell me that, Is University of Mumbai offers the M.A in Political Science? If yes then can you please share the syllabus, eligibility of the M.A in Political Science and the contact details of the Mumbai University??

[Arun Vats]

The University of Mumbai is also known as the Mumbai University. It is one of the first three state universities in Indi. It is located in the city of Mumbai in the state of Maharashtra.

It was established on 18 July 1857

Yes the course M.A in political science is being offered by the university.

You are looking for the syllabus of the M.A in political science. So I am providing it to you:

1. Approaches to Political Theory: Normative, Institutional,
Behavioural, Marxist, Post
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Marxist, Feminist.
2. Positivism, Scientific Method and its Critique, Contemporary
Appro
aches to Research in Social Sciences.
3. Theories of the State: Classical, Pluralist and neo
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Pluralist,
Elitist,
Marxist and neo
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Marxist
4. Key Concepts: Power, Authority, Legitimacy and Political
Obligation.
5. Political Ideas: Law, Li
berty, Rights, Justice, Equality and Civil
Society

For full paper download the attachment:
M.A Part 1 Political Science Syllabus

Syllabus M.A. (Part I) Political Science (Group – I)
Paper - I Political Theory

1. Approaches to Political Theory: Normative, Institutional, Behavioural, Marxist, Post-Marxist, Feminist.

2. Positivism, Scientific Method and its Critique, Contemporary Approaches to Research in Social Sciences.

3. Theories of the State: Classical, Pluralist and neo-Pluralist, Elitist, Marxist and neo-Marxist

4. Key Concepts: Power, Authority, Legitimacy and Political Obligation.

5. Political Ideas: Law, Liberty, Rights, Justice, Equality and Civil Society.

6. Nationalism: Changing concepts, problems of Identity, Ethnicity and Citizenship.

7. Contemporary debates in Democracy, Forms of representation and participation.

8. Political Ideology: Meaning, Significance. Liberalism, Neo- Ljberalism, Marxism,Socialism, Fascism, Communitarianism, Gandhism.

9. Development: Meaning and Various Approaches, Globalisation.

10. Contemporary debates in Modernity, Gender, Environment, Multiculturalism.

Suggested Readings:

1. Arneil, Barbara, Politics and Feminism, Oxford, Blackwell, 1999.

2. Aronowitz, Stanley, The Politics of Identity, London, Routledge, 1992.

3. Barry, Norman, An Introduction to Modern Political Theory, London, Macmillan, 1981.

4. Bealey, Frank, The Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science, Oxford, Blackwell, 1999.

5. Beetham, David, The Legitimation of Power, Houndmills, Macmillan, 1991.

6. Bell, David, Communitarianism and its Critics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1993

7. Chew, Sing C., and Denemark, Robert A., The Underdevelopment of Development, Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications, 1996

8. Clarke, Desmond M. and Jones, Charles, The Rights of Nations : nations and nationalism in a changing world, Cork, Cork University Press, 1999. 3

9. Cohen, J. and Arato, A., Civil Society and Political Theory, Cambridge, MIT Press, 1992.

10. De Crespigny, Anthony, et.al. (Eds.) Contemporary Political Theory, London, Nelson, 1970. ,

11. Dodson, Andrew, Green Political Thought, London, Routleflge, 2000, reprint. ,

12. Dunn, John, The History of Political Theory and Other* Essays, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996.

13. Eckersley, R., Environmentalism and Political Theory: Towards an Ecocentric Approach, London, University of California, 1992. /;

14. Etzioni, A., The Spirit of Community: Rights, Responsibilities and the Communitarian Agenda, New York, Crown Publishing GroitjD, 1993.

15. Evans, Peter, Rueschemeger, D. and Skocpol, T. (Eds.), flinging the State Back in, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986.

16. Frazer, Elizabeth, The Problems of Communitarian Politics : Unity and Conflict, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000.

17. Gellner, Ernest (Ed.), Culture, Identity and Politics, London, Cambridge University Press, 1987.

18. Geras, Norman and Wokler, Robert, Enlightenment and Modernity,Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1999.

19. Goodin, Robert E., and Klingemann, Hans_Dieter, A Handbook of Political Science, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996.

20. Greenstein, F.I. and Polsby, N (Eds.), Handbook of Political Science, Reading Massachusetts, Addison-Wesley, 1975.

21. Halberstam, Michael, Totalitarianism and the Modem Conception of Politics, New Haven Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2000.

22. Hall, J.A. (Ed.), Civil Society, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1995.

23. Hardin, R., Liberalism, Constitutionalism, and Democracy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999.

24. Harvey, L., Critical Social Research, Unwin Hyman, London, 1990.

25. Hawkesworth, Brian and Kogan, Maurice (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Government, Volumes I and II, Oxford, Oxford University Press,1992.

26. Held, David, Political Theory and the Modern State, Essays on State Power and Democracy, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1989.

27. Hettene, Bjorn, Development Theory and the Three Worlds, Essex, Longman, 1990. 4

28. Hey wood, Andrew. Political Ideologies: An Introduction, Houndmills, Macmillan, 1992.

29. Hirst, P. and Thompson, G., Globalisation in Question, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1996.

30. Hirst, Paul, From Statism to Pluralism, London, University of California Press Limited, 1997.

31. Joseph, Sarah, Interrogating Culture, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1998.

32. Joyce, Peter, An Introduction to Politics, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1999.

33. Kymlicka, Will, Multicultural Citizenship, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995.

34 MacCormick, N., Questioning Sovereignty, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999.

35. Mahajan, Gurpreet (Ed.), Democracy, Difference and Social Justice, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998.

36. Marsh, David and Stoker, Gerry, Theory and Methods in Political Science, Houndmills, Macmillan, 1995.

Contact:
University of Mumbai
CST Road, Kalina, Santacruz East, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400098
022 2654 3000

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