UGC NET/JRF EXAM, Dec. 2020/June-2021 POLITICAL SCIENCE (Paper-II) (SHIFT-I)

International Agreements Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement → BECA was formally signed in the year 2020 during Indo US 2+2 talks.

Indo-US Civil Nuclear Deal → The Indo - US agreement was initiated in July 2005 between Dr. Manmohan Singh & George Bush.

High Technology Cooperation Groups → The high technology cooperation Group (HTCG) created in 2002 with two Broad agendas → To promote strategic trade. →To promote and facilitate bilateral high technology.

Next Steps in Strategic Partnership → It was signed in 2004 between US and India.

Cabinet Government ⇒ Parliamentary government also known as a cabinet responsibility at the centre, while Article 164/3 deals with state government.

Presidential Government ⇒ The doctrine of separation of powers refers to the disunion of diverse power among legislative, executive and judicial branches.

Federal Government ⇒ In this form of government powers are divided between the centre and state.

Unitary Government ⇒ There is no division of power in this form of government.

Rabindra Ray (The Naxalites and their Ideology) ⇒ According to Rabindra Ray, any accurate analysis of naxalism must take into account what it meant to be Naxalites and what engaging in Naxalism meant to the individuals.

Ashish Kumar Roy (The Spring Thunder and After) ⇒ In it, the author analyses the Maoist movement and Naxalite uprising.

Carole Spary (Gender, Development and the State in India) ⇒ This book investigates the connection between the Indian state, development strategy and gender equality.

Sanjay Kumar (Indian Youth and Educational Politics) ⇒ This book studies the relationship between the Indian youth and electoral politics in the country.

Decision Making ⇒ Herbert Simon

Ecological Approach ⇒ Fred Riggs

New Public Administration ⇒ Minnow brook Conference 1968

Development Administration ⇒ Edward Wiedner

Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Act → 1999

Reserve Bank of India Act → 1934

Fiscal Responsibility and  Budget Management Act → 2003

Prevention of Corruption  → 1988

The Feminist movement is the struggle for equal rights between women and men. The feminist movement is divided into four phases.

First Phase → Emerged in the 1860s and 1870s.

Second Phase → Emerged in the 1960s, it proclaimed the need for a sexual revolution and demanded equal social and economic rights for women.

Third Phase → Begun in the 1990s, it focused on reproductive rights of women.

Fourth Phase → Gained trend in the early 2000s.

Important works authored by Hannah Arendt are:

The origin of totalitarianism written by her in 1951.
The Human Condition was published in 1958.
On Revolution was published in 1963.
On Violence was published in 1970.