Political Science UPSC optional PDF Notes 1.Political theory meaning and approaches 2.Theories of the state: Liberal, Neoliberal, Marxist, Pluralist, Post-colonial and feminist. 3.Justice: Conceptions of justice with special reference to Rawl’s theory of justice and its communitarian critiques. 4.Equality: Social, political and economic;relationship between equality and freedom; Affirmative action. 5.Rights: Meaning and theories; different kinds of rights; concept of Human Rights. 6.Democracy: Classical and contemporary theories; different models of democracy – representative, participatory and deliberative. 7.Concept of power, hegemony, ideology and legitimacy. 8.Political Ideologies: Liberalism, Socialism, Marxism, Fascism, Gandhism and Feminism. 9.Indian Political Thought: Dharamshastra, Arthashastra, and Buddhist traditions; Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Sri Aurobindo, M.K. Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, M.N. Roy . 10.Western Political Thought : Plato ,Aristotle, Machiavelli, Ho