IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
PPA
1. Meaning and Scope of Public Administration
2. Herbert Simon’s rational Decision Making theory
3. How is Human Relations theory an improvement upon the Scientific Management
theory
4. What is New Public Management? Discuss its impact on public administration
5. Max Weber’s Model of bureaucracy
6. Principles of Scientific Management theory
7. Rigg’s ecological approach has made substantial contribution to the understanding
of public administration. Elaborate
8. Short note on: Good Governance; POSDCoRB; NPM; Feminist Perspective of PA;
Public Private dichotomy
9. Define Public Administration. Discuss briefly the evolution of the discipline in
modern times.
10. Examine Feminist Perspective in Public Administration
11. Define good governance. What are its characteristics?
12. How is NPM different from NPA?
MACPA
1. What Is Comparative Politics? Discuss the growth and development of comparative
politics from a third world perspective.
2. Discuss the new-institutional approach to the study of comparative politics.
3. What is comparative politics? How relevant is it in understanding contemporary
political developments? Explain.
4. What were the detrimental effects euro-centrism had on comparative political
analysis? How did the non-European comparativists challenge the Euro-centric
biases?
5. How does political culture determine the functioning of political institutions?
Explain with reference to the political culture approach to comparative politics.
6. What are the differences between old institutional-ism and new institutional-ism.
Critically evaluate the Institutional-ism approach in modern times.
7. What do you understand by Comparative Politics? Critically examine its nature and
scope.
8. What do you understand by Euro-centrism? What challenges does it pose to the
study of comparative politics?
IIRTC
1. Critically examine Kenneth Waltz’s structural Realism. How does defensive
realism of Waltz differ from the offensive realism of Mearsheimer? Discuss.
2. Critically examine the key-assumptions of Neo-Realist theory of IR.
3. Critically examine the contemporary challenges which liberalism is facing in
present times.
4. Is feminist approach the most convincing theory in IR? Examine its relevance
today.
5. What do you understand by IR? What are its major issues? Elaborate.
6. How does realism explain IR? Critically examine the six principles of realist theory
of Morgenthau.
7. Discuss the significance and evolution of IR as a discipline. Why do you think that
IR should be inter-disciplinary in nature?
8. Discuss the six principles of Hans Morgenthau’s understanding of realism. Is it
right to say that realism is theory, paradigm and tradition? Justify.
9. “War is in the minds of men”. In the light of feminist debates in IR, analyse this
statement.
10. Critically analyse the core assumptions of liberalism in the study of IR.
11. Why should we study IR? Account for its three dominant perspectives.
12. How do feminists define security? How do feminist perspectives of IR explain
women subordination?
13. Compare realism with neo-realism in the study of IR.
