Theories of the State - PSIR PYQs
1. Comment on: Feminist critique of State. [150words, 10marks] [2021]
2. Comment on: Post-colonial theory of the State. [150words, 10marks] [2020]
3. Comment on: Pluralist theory of the State. [150words, 10marks] [2019]
4. Discuss Kautilya's views on the elements of the State. [200words, 15marks] [2019]
5. Critically examine the neo-liberal theory of State. [250words, 20marks] [2018]
6. Comment on: Neo-liberal perspective of State. [150words, 10marks] [2017]
7. Comment on; Hobbesian notion of Political Obligation. [150words, 10marks] [2017]
8. Comment on: Gandhi's Views on State. [150words, 10marks] [2015]
9. Examine the challenges to sovereignty of the State in the contemporary world. [250words, 20marks] [2015]
10. Discuss the key features of pre-Marxist socialist theory. [200words, 15marks] [2015]
11. Discuss the relationship between base and superstructure in Marxist theory. [200words, 15marks] [2015]
12. Comment on: "Covenants without swords are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all." (Hobbes). [150words, 10marks] [2013]
13. Analyse, as per kautilya, the Saptanga theory of the state. [150words, 15marks] [2013]
14. What is meant bu relative autonomy ' of State in Marxist analysis? [250words, 20marks] [2012]
15. Comment on: "The worth of a State... Is the worth of individuals composing it." (J. S. Mill) [200words, 20marks] [2011]
16. Comment on: Hobbies as an individualist. [200words, 20marks] [2011]
17. Make an assessment of the post-colonial understanding of State. [200words, 30marks] [2011]
18. Evaluate Mark's instrumentalist approach to the State. [200words, 30marks] [2010]
19. Do you think that the modem nation - state has been declining in the wake of globalization? Justify your answer. [200words, 30marks] [2010]
20. Critically examine Hamza Alavis Fomulation of the over developed state. [200words, 60marks] [2009]
21. Comment on: In the happiness of his subjects lies the kings happiness in their welfare of his welfare (Kautilya). [200words, 20marks] [2007]
22. Comment on: state is the result of the irreconcilability of class antagonism (Lenin). [200words, 20marks] [2007]
23. Comment on: Because the society is federal, the authority must also be federal (Laski). [200words, 20marks] [2007]
24. Comment on: THE GENERAL WILL is not so much the will of the State as the will for the State, (Maclver). [200words, 20marks] [2006]
25. Comment on: Impact of Globalisation on State Sovereignty. [200words, 20marks] [2006]
26. Comment on; The discovery of Sovereign in a federal state is an impossible adventure (Laski). [200words, 20marks] [2005]
27. The root of politics, according to Marx, does not lie in the state; it lies in the socia[ conditions under]ying this institution, that is, in the materia] conditions of life as reflected through the mode of production. Comment [200words, 60marks] [2005]
28. Comment on: As soon as a nation appoints representatives, it is no longer free, it no longer exists (Rousseau). [200words, 20marks] [2004]
29. Comment on: "Will, not force, is the basis of the state (T H Green)". [200words, 20marks] [2002]
30. Comment on: Polyarchy. [200words, 20marks] [2001]
31. Critically examine Marxist theory of the state with reference to the dictatorship of the proletariat. [200words, 60marks] [2001]
32. Comment on: I give the name to every state that is governed by laws, no matter what the form of its administration (Rousseau). [200words, 20marks] [2000]
33. Comment on: State is a march of God on the Earth (Hegel). [200words, 20marks] [2000]
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