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Chief Minister communicates all im­portant decisions taken by his Council of Ministers. Chief Minister is the head of Council of Ministers in the Legislative Assembly…

Important Points focused by President Wil­son are Abolition of secret treaties or diplomacy, Freedom in the use of seas by all the States, Evacuation of Belgium by Germany,Creation of Independent States in Eu­rope…

The genesis of the Systems approach can be traced to several, different sciences. Lilienfeld has mentioned in this connection the fields of biology, cybernetics and operations research. This approach is also indebted to…

Early in the 1840s, embarrassed by his ignorance on economic issues, Marx shifted his attention from jurisprudence to material interests. Marx says: “I was led by my studies to the conclusion that legal relations…

To find out how a political system can realize its goal, David Easton would seek answers to these questions: “What are the actual authoritative policies adopted by a society ? How are they determined and how are they…

The fact of the existence of the state is older than its name. The state as a word ‘Stato’ appeared in Italy in the early part of the sixteenth century, in writings of Machiavelli (1469-1527). The meaning of the state in the sense…

Imperialism can be traced from the Greek and Roman empires to its mercantile ‘old’ form in the 16th and 17th centuries to its monopolistic ‘new’ form in the 19th and 20th centuries. Two views of the new imperialism…..

The examination of the theory, method and concept suggests a dichotomy between bourgeois and Marxist political economy. Attention to capitalist accumulation permits the consideration of both political and economic issues…

Ernest Mandel has provided the most recent interpretation of developments in political economy. Petty commodity production was the first stage that lasted upto the Middle Ages. The transformation of Europe from feudalism….

The obedience to a government is not merely a legal phenomenon. It is also a political one. People obey a law more because of the fact that they feel it is good to obey it, as also because, they are convinced that the government issuing the laws is a legitimate one.

Political Violence is a collective violent action of a group of people against the government to highlighted its discontent.

Cosmopolitan Democracy is an idea advanced by political theorists in the context of globalization.

The classical theory of participatory democracy is found in the writing of Rousseau and John Stuart Mill. Rousseau’s theory depends upon the participation of every individual citizen in political decision-making.

In the liberal democratic political systems of the West European and North American states traditionally the primary focus was on civil and political rights. Socio-economic rights were not recognized as fundamental rights in these states, through a few of them found their way in one other form in the constitutions of these states.

In the midst of bloodshed and communal passion, The founders of the Indian state repudiated the false and basically inhuman doctrine of communalism and made secularism the sheet anchor of India’s unity. It was indeed a great act of humanism, and courage.

The executive of the State consists of the Governor and the Council of Ministers with the Chief Minister at its head. It functions very much like the Central Government except on certain points…