Political Theory and Organisation (For Law Students)

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Description
This is a compendious volume on the principles of political theory and organisation, especially meant for the first year law students of the five-year degree course. It unravels the growth of libaralism and Marxist thought in India. The Hindu and Islamic conceptions of the state have been dealt with. The pithy narration of theories and the critical tenor of the book made it indispensable for understanding the fundamental principles of political theory and organisation. The succlent presentation of ideologies in modrn India is an added attraction of this book.
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Contents
1.    The Concepts of the State and Government
2.    Natural Law and Natural Rights
3.    The Western Liberalism
4.    Socialism and Marxism
5.    The Hindu and Islamic Concepts of the State
6.    The Liberal Ideology in India
7.    Gandhism and Sarvodaya
8.    Marxist Thought in India
9.    The Sovereignty
10.  The Totalitarian State
11.  The Classification of Governments
12.  The Unitary and Federal Governments
13.  The Cabinet and Presidential Forms of Government
14.  The Theory of the Separation of Powers
15.  The Legislature
16.  The Independence of Judiciary and Parliamentary Soverignty
17.  Representation
18.  Public Opinion
Subject Index
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Author Details
Dr. L.S. Rathore is Professor & Head of the Department of Political Science, University of Jodhpur, Jodhpur (Rajasthan). He is the Editor of Indian Journal of Political Studies, and the President of the Indian Political Science Association. He had been the Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in the University of Jodhpur (1979-82); elected member, Executive Committee of International Political Science Association (1982-85) and the recipient of Rajasthan University Merit Scholarship (1935-55), Netherlands Universities Foundation Fellowship (1959), Senior Fulbright Fellowship (1971), and the UCC Senior Fellowship (1963-65). He attended World Congresses of International Political Science Association at Moscow (1979), Rio de Janerio (1982), Paris (1985), and the Washington (1988); and the Round Table Conferences in Political Science at Tokyo, Urbana, Berlin (FOR), Florence, Zagreb and Helsinki. He visited Yugoslavia in March 1985 under India-Yugoslav Cultural Exchange Programme. He had been the Visiting Professor in Prague (1984) and the Berlin, CDR (1985). He is the author of five major books in political science and three books in English Poetry.
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