CSS POLITICAL SCIENCE Syllabus

POLITICAL SCIENCE
Total Marks – 200

PAPER I (Marks – 100)

PART ‘A’

1. Political Theory

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