1. "Free and fair deliberation is key to the foundation." Explain. [200words, 15marks] [2021]
2. Explain the Aristotelian view of Politics. To what extent do you think it has contributed to the development of modern-day constitutional democracies? [250words, 20marks] [2021]
3. Comment on: Deliberative democracy. [150words, 10marks] [2019]
4. Comment on: M. K. Gandhi's concept of Swaraj. [150words, 10marks] [2019]
5. Comment on: Substantive Democracy. [150words, 10marks] [2018]
6. Critically examine McPherson's views on Democracy. [200words, 15marks] [2018]
7. Deliberative democracy does not have its salience without participation and participatory democracy does not have its credence without deliberations. Comment. [200words, 15marks] [2017]
8. Political democracy could not last unless social democracy lay at its base - B.R. Ambedkar. Comment. [250words, 20marks] [2017]
9. Explicate the features of Representative Democracy. [200words, 15marks] [2016]
10. Comment on: Difference between Participatory and Deliberative Democracy. [150words, 10marks] [2015]
11. Comment on: "India has thrown up a form ofjudicial democracy that has no parallel anywhere else, and has nurtured a kind of civil society that is uniquely its own." (Bhikhu Parekh). [150words, 10marks] [2014]
12. Explicate the features of deliberative democracy. [200words, 15marks] [2014]
13. Issues of debate in contemporary democratic theory. [150words, 10marks] [2012]
14. Examine the Participatory Model of Democracy. [200words, 30marks] [2011]
15. Assess the deliberative theories of democracy. [200words, 30marks] [2010]
16. Comment on the proposition that liberal constitutionalism precedes liberal democracy. [200words, 20marks] [2009]
17. Political process in a country is merely the manifestation of political culture. Elucidate. [200words, 60marks] [2007]
18. Democratic theory presupposes self-determination, human rights and social justice. Discuss this with particular reference to M K Gandhi. [200words, 60marks] [2005]
19. The modern pluralist democracies have posed a great threat to the fabric of nation state. Discuss. [200words, 60marks] [2000]
20. Examine the nature and limits of the rights of Resistance and Revolution recognized in modern political theory. [60marks] [1997]
21. Discuss the philosophical basis of doctrine of popular sovereignty, and its significance for mankind. [60marks] [1997]
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