OMG353 Democracy and Good Governance Syllabus:

OMG353 Democracy and Good Governance Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021

UNIT I

Structure and Process of Governance: Indian Model of Democracy, Parliament, Party Politics and Electoral Behaviour, Federalism, the Supreme Court and Judicial Activism, Units of Local Governance

UNIT II

Regulatory Institutions – SEBI, TRAI, Competition Commission of India,

UNIT III

Lobbying Institutions: Chambers of Commerce and Industries, Trade Unions, Farmers Associations, etc.

UNIT IV

Contemporary Political Economy of Development in India: Policy Debates over Models of Development in India, Recent trends of Liberalisation of Indian Economy in different sectors, E‐governance

UNIT V

Dynamics of Civil Society: New Social Movements, Role of NGO’s, Understanding the political significance of Media and Popular Culture.

TOTAL : 45 PERIODS
REFERENCES:

1. Atul Kohli (ed.): The Success of India’s Democracy, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
2. Corbridge, Stuart and John Harris: Reinventing India: Liberalisation, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy, Oxford University Press, 2000.
3. J.Dreze and A.Sen, India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity, Clarendon, 1995.
4. Saima Saeed: Screening the Public Sphere: Media and Democracy in India,2013
5. Himat Singh: Green Revolution Reconsidered: The Rural World of Punjab, OUP, 2001.
6. Jagdish Bhagwati: India in Transition: Freeing The Economy, 1993.
7. Smitu Kothari: Social Movements and the Redefinition of Democracy, Boulder, Westview, 1993.