UPSC PSIR Paper 1 Syllabus
Political Theory - Paper 1A Political theory - meaning and approaches Theories of State Liberal Neo-Liberal Marxist Pluralist Post-colonial Feminist Justice Conception of Justice with special reference to Rawl's theory of Justice and Its communitarian critique Equality Social Political and Economic Relationship between equality and freedom Affirmative action Rights Meaning and Theories Different kind of Rights Conception of Human Rights Democracy Classical and Contemporary theories Different models of Democracy Representative Participative and Deliberative Concept of Power Hegemony Ideology Legitimacy Political Ideologies Liberalism Marxism Socialism Fascism Gandhism and Feminism Indian Political Thought Dharmashastra Arthashastra Buddhist Traditions Sir Syed Ahmad Khan Sri Aurobindo M.K. Gandhi B.R. Ambedkar M.N. Roy Western Political Thought Plato Aristotle Machiavelli Hobbes Locke John S. Mill Marx Gramsci Hannah Arendt Indian Government and Politics - P...