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Ethics deals with morality and formulates rules which should influence the behaviour of man while living in society. It investigates the Tightness or wrongness of man’s conduct and prescribes ideals to which he would direct his efforts.

Anthropology deals with racial divisions of man, his physical character, his geographic division, his environmental and social relations, and his cultural development.

With the advance in the statistical theory and method and the recent tendency toward quantitative measurements in social situations, the relationship between Political Science and Statistics has become close and deep.

From the map of democratic nations of 2012, one can observe that at least one-fourth of globe is still not under democratic government in these parts of the world there is a foundational challenge of making the transition to democracy and instituting democratic government.

Another feature of modern society is the emergence of the mass phenomenon, which tends to merge rather than distinguish classes, and counter-balance the rise of modern individualism with the decline of local communities and the acceleration of political centralization.

For Bolshevik, socialism was not only critical of capitalism through means other than cooperativism and piecemeal state regulation. Among the Bolsheviks, a serious economist, Nikolai Bukharin, dismissed liberal notions of the ‘utility’ school as unworthy of the attention of those concerned with more than the activities of the rentier or leisured class.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi views on the State begin from a position of deep distrusts and discomfort vis-s-vis the State. He differed from the core commitment that liberals make to the idea of unbridle individualism.

Jean Jacques Rousseau is uncomfortable with the idea that sovereignty can be transferred either by consent or through the ballot; actually he did not think it possible even.

The germ of casteism is cutting the roots of the Hindu society gradually. It has so compartmentalized this society into Brahmans, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras that the people of one caste don’t mix up freely with the people of the other castes. Casteism is fully exploited during elections. Such a situation creates bitterness and tension.

National integration is unity in diversity. It means a feeling of oneness. It implies social, political, economic, linguistic and cultural unity.

A constitution is a fundamental legal document according to which the government of a country functions. It is the basic law which defines and delimits the main organs of government and their jurisdiction as well as the basic rights of the citizens.

The Indian Constitution mentions some of the most important rights of the citizens. These are called fundamental rights. These rights are fundamental in two different ways.

Prime Minister is the strongest of all min­isters and enjoys position of pre-eminence because: He is the leader of the party which has support of the majority of members in Lok Sabha.

Centralised Federalism can be understood in the following way.In a Federal Government, the Con­stitution divides the powers between the-Central and State Governments. This Constitutional division of power ensures use of power by Central and State Governments within their own spheres…

Comparison is one of the oldest forms of the study of politics. The earliest beginning of the comparative method can be traced back to the fourth century B.C when Aristotle made the first recorded attempt at describing…

Parliamentary Government is the oldest form of democracy. U.K. is considered as the mother of this form of democracy whereas in a Democratic Government the President is the head of the executive and is elected directly…