UNIT - I Local Self Government in India

1. Local Self Government : Meaning, Origin and Development 2. The 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments 3. Rural Local Self Government : Composition and Powers 4. Gram Panchayat 5. Panchayat Samiti 6. Zila Parishad 7. Urban Local Self Government : Composition and Powers 8. Financial Administration of Local Self Government 9. Local Self Government and Bureaucracy 10. Local Self Government and Public Participation 11. Impact of Women’s Quotation Panchayati Raj System 12. Local Autonomy : Prospects and Significance 

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UNIT - II  Comparative Government and Politics

1. Comparative Politics 2. Approaches to Comparative Politics 3. Federal and Unitary System 4. Constitutional Structure : Executives 5. Constitutional Structure : Legislature 6. Constitutional Structure : Judiciary 7. Methods of Amendment of Major Constitutions 8. Origin, Importance and Features of the British Constitutions 9. Constitution of America : Origin, Importance and Features 10. Constitution of France : Origin, Importance and Features 11. Swiss Constitution : Origin, Development and Salient Features. 

UNIT - III Ancient and Medieval Western Political Thought 

1. Plato 2. Aristotle 3. Post-Aristotelian and Roman Political Thought 4. St. Augustine 5. St. Thomas and Marsilio 6. Church-State Relationship.