Political Theory: Concepts and Debates ( Compulsory)

 

Political Theory: Concepts and Debates

Unit I: Freedom and Equality: 

a) Freedom: Lockean notion of Negative Freedom, Amartya sen's notion of Development as Freedom.

b) Equality: Procedural Equality and Substantive Equality 

c) Egalitarianism: Background, inequalities and differential treatment.

Unit -II: Justice : 

a)Distributive Justice: John Rawls 

b) Libertarian Theories of Justice 

c) Global Justice 

Unit -III: Rights and Obligations:

a) The Universality of Rights and Differentiated Rights 

b) Rights, Obligation and Civil Disobedience 

c) Theories of Political Obligation Conservatism, Consent Theory , Anarchism 

Unit -IV: Major Debates 

a) Whatever happens to the nation state? Sovereignty under Globalization 

b) How do we accomodate diversity in plural society? Diversity and Multiculturalism 

c) How do we deal with climate change? Ecological Rights as human rights.