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
| Title | Author | |
|---|---|---|
1 |
History of Muslim Philosophy | M.M. Sharif |
2 |
Constitutional Development in Pakistan | G.W. Choudhry |
3 |
Comparative Politics; A World View | Almond & Powell |
4 |
Contemporary Political Analysis | Garles Worth James |
5 |
Government & Parliament: A Survey from the Inside | Herbert Morrison |
6 |
Government and Politics in Pakistan | Mushtaq Ahmed |
7 |
History of Political Theory | George H. Sabine |
8 |
History of Political Theories | William A. Dunning |
9 |
Political Thought in Medieval Islam | Rosenthal |
10 |
Modern Islamic State | Rosenthal |
11 |
Political Thought in Perspective | William Edenstein |
12 |
Pattern of Government | Samuel H. Beer & Adam B. Ullam |
13 |
Pakistan: A Political Study | Keith Callard |
14 |
Politics, Parties and Pressure Groups | V.O. Key Jr. |
15 |
Modern Political Systems: Asia | Roy, C. Macradis (ed) |
16 |
Politics in Pakistan: Nature and Direction of Change | Khalid Bin Sayeed |
17 |
Reflection on Government | Earnest Barker |
18 |
South-East Asia Political System | Lucian W. Pye |
19 |
The Political System of Pakistan | Khalid Bin Sayeed |
20 |
Nizam-ul-Mulk Tusi, Published by Muhammad Ashraf, Lahore, 1978 | Rizvi, S. Rizwan Ali |
21 |
Nizam-ul-Mulk Tusi (Urdu), Karachi University 1995 | Prof. Dr. Rizwan Ali Rizvi |