Test 7 : Political Science Mains Marathon
TEST NO 07 : COMPARATIVE POLITICS (250 WORDS, 15MARKS)
Q.1. Discuss the impact of globalization on the internal functioning of the state.
Q.2. Critically examine functional and systems approach to study of International relation.
Q.3. Examine the Marxist perspective of political economy to the study of comparative politics. How relevant it is in present times?
Q.4. Comment on decline of political parties and examine whether new social movement shall be an alternative strategy for establishing new link between society and state.
Q.5. Is globalization an essentially a process of ‘universalization’ of capitalist modernity? How has it affected internal functioning of the state?
Q.6. What is the difference between Interest groups and Pressure groups? In case of India are these fully able to promote interest of its member?
Q.7. Comment: party system in India is neither western nor indigenous.
Q.8. Suggest some of the measures to ensure that the electoral system in India doesn’t make democracy into ‘tyranny of majority’.
Q.9. Discuss the evolution of Political Sociology. What are its weaknesses and strength?
Q.10 Compare the nature of state as found in advanced nations with that of post-colonial socities.
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Q.1. Discuss the impact of globalization on the internal functioning of the state.
Globalization is growing interconnectedness among the countries of the world. It is not a new phenomenon, however the present stage of globalization is based on the liberal ideology in general and neo liberal more specifically, which is led by the western world.
In the words of Thomas Friedman, globalization is an inexorable integration of markets, nation states, technology to the degree never witnessed before.
There is consensus among scholars on the phenomenon of globalization however there is no consensus on the issue of globalization’s impact on state.
Globalist scholars such as Kenichi Ohame, Marshall McLuhan etc believes that free flow of forces of globalization ( technology, capital, goods etc) has greatly eroded the capacity of states to monitor and regulate. Further, globalzation has rendered the sovereignty of states redundant.
While statists do not agree with this view. They believe that the state is in control of globalization and not the opposite and emphasizes that Geopolitics rather than geo economics ie. State centric view of the world.
Other scholars such as Transformationalist believes that it is not a zero some game. At some places state is winning while at other globalization.
However, scholars like Sorenson and Marxist scholars globalization not impacted all states equally and stronger states continue to dominate weaker states whereas weaker states continuously shaped by globalization ( development at the core and the development of underdevelopment ).