POLITICAL SCIENCE & IR – PAPER I

Odisha Civil Services Mains 2024

Time: 3 Hours
|Full Marks: 250

GROUP A

10 × 15 MARKS

Instructions: Attempt 10 (ten) questions. Word limit: 250 words.

Critically analyse Robert Nozick’s theory of Justice with examples.
Critically analyse the teleological interpretation of history by Marxism.
Kautilya has laid down some finest abstract principles of administration in his Arthashastra. Analyse these principles in relation to their contemporary relevance.
Define Plato’s scheme of education for the ideal state with its contemporary relevance.
M. N. Roy regards the materialism of Marxism as dogmatic and unscientific. Critically examine the statement with relevant arguments.
Explain the Aristotelian classification of Government with its methodology.
Discuss the dependency theory to explain the economic manipulation of Post-Colonial States.
Discuss three types of culture explained by Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba in The Civic Culture.
Elaborate on the core ideas of Utopian Socialism with its thinkers.
Elaborate on the pluralist view of democracy with its relevance.
The State is not supreme or unlimited. Explain this statement from the perspective of pluralistic sovereignty.
Critically analyse the qualities of elites as mentioned by Gaetano Mosca.

05 × 20 MARKS

Instructions: Attempt 05 (five) questions. Word limit: 300 words.

Define the concept of Court of Record. Discuss its constitutional provisions with reference to the Supreme Court.
Define asymmetrical federalism with provisions of horizontal federalism in the Indian Constitution.
Critically evaluate the women’s participation in the local governance of Odisha.
Differentiate between a National political party and a State political party. Explain the entitlements of a State political party in India.
What, according to Subhas Chandra Bose, has brought India’s downfall in the material and political spheres?
Attempt a comparative analysis of the constitutional discretionary power of the President and the Governor in India.

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