civils mains 2009

POLITICAL SCIENCE AND
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Paper I

time Allowed: Three Hours Maximum Marks.: 300

INSTRUCTIONS

Each question is printed both in Hindi and in English.

Answers must be written in the mediuni specified in the Admission Certificate issued to you, which must be stated clearly on the cover of the answer-book in the space provided for the purpose. No marks will be given for the answers written in a mediu1n other than that specified in the Admission Certificate.

Candidates. should attempt Question Nos.·] and 5 which are compulsory, and any three of the remaining questions selecting at least one question from each Section.

A1l questions carry equal marks.

Section

1. Comment on any three of the following in about
200 words each 20x3=60

"Political· Theory is, quite simply, man's attempts to consciously understand and solve the· problems of his group life and organiza- ti6n·It is the disciplined investigation of political problems .... not only to show what a political practice is, but also to sliow what it means. In showing what a practice ·means; or what it ought to mean, political theory can alter what it is." (Sabine)-

"Woman has· always· been man's dependent,· if not his slave; the- two sexes have never shared the world in equality." (Simone de Beauvoir)

"Western thought, one might say, has been either platonic or anti??platonic but hardly ever non-platonic." (Popper)

"Sociali,sm is a much used hat, whose original_ shape no one can define.': (C. E. M. Joad)

2. Compare a•n d contrast Kautilya and 20 · Machiavelli on statecraft.

Explain as to why Jeremy Bentham dismisses the theory of natural rights as 'nonsense upon stilts.' 20

Comment on the propositioi:i that liberal_ constitutionalism precedes liberal democracy. 20

3. Examine in detail Marx's prescription for ending alienation reaching the stage of de-alienation .. 60

4. Critically· exan1ine Han1za Alavi's -the overdeveloped State. formulation of 60

Section ·

Comment on any three· of the following 1n about 200 words _each:20x3=60

Inter State Committees.
Radical Humanism. ·

The functions, duties and powers of the appropriate National Commission as -laid down in Clauses · and of Article-338 of the Constitution,
Implications of the use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) on electoral politics.

6. Critically examine the arguments being advanced for review of the present system of appointment of judges to the higher judiciary of the co1,1ntry. · · 30 ·

Bring out the changing educational profile of the Members of the Lok Sabha over the years, up to the present (15th) Lok Sabha. 30

7. "The OBC politics has challenged the nature of dominant caste politics in the states." Critically examine this . statement and. bring out your conclusions. · 60
·8. The environmental ·movementi have challenged the policy and pattern of economic development in post-i dependent India." Analyse with examples, 60

Note English version of the Instructions is printed on the front cover· of this question paper.