Quick Summary: Key Takeaways Fundamental Rights ( Part III , Articles 12-35 ) are justiciable limits on the government; Directive Principles ( Part IV , Articles 36-51 ) are non-justiciable positive i...

Introduction The Constitution is a document that prescribes how the state should be and what principles it will follow . It is crucial because it establishes the governance rules and defines the power...

Introduction Definition and Types : Political obligation is the commitment or duty to act in a specific way. According to H.L.A. Hart , in his book The Concept of Law (1961), it is divided into "being...

Critical Perspectives in Political Theory: Feminist and Postmodern. Feminist Perspective, Defining Feminism, Schools of feminism, Waves of feminism, Post-feminism, Personal is Political, Sex and Gender, Postmodern, Defining Postmodernism, Difference between Modernism and Postmodernism, Opposition of modernism, Foucault and Derrida, Main Postmodernist Thinkers, Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Laclau and Mouffe, Critique of Postmodernism, Exercise Question.

Important! These notes are from old SOL study material Traditions of Political Theory: Liberal, Marxist, Anarchist, and Conservative Liberal Tradition History and Definition The liberal tradition of p...

Understanding the Terms: Political Science, Political Philosophy, and Political Theory What is political theory? Political theory is a subfield of political science that encompasses (or surrounds) pol...

What is politics? is the first unit of Understanding Political Theory in the B.A. (Hons.) Political Science Semester-I course at the University of Delhi. These bullet notes explain the meaning of politics, the definitions by Lasswell, Easton, and Crick, the difference between the political and the social, and how morality, the state, public policy, and law connect, with solved exam questions at the end.