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BPSC 105

BACHELOR OF ARTS
POLITICAL SCIENCE (HONOURS/MAJOR) PROGRAMMEs
(BAPSH/BAFPS)

ASSIGNMENT 2024-2025

BPSC -105: INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT


AND POLITICS

Faculty of Political Science


SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
INDIRAGANDHINATIONALOPENUNIVERSITY
MAIDAN GARHI, NEW DELHI-68
Dear Student,

This Assignment booklet has Tutor Market Assignments for the course BPSC 105 Introduction
to Comparative Government and Politics, a core course on offer in the BAPSH and BAFPS
programmes of the University. This is a six credit course with three sections. You will have to
do all three sections of this TMA whose total marks add up to 100 and carry a weightage of 30
per cent.
Assignment One has Descriptive Category Questions (DCQs). These are meant for writing essay
type answers, with an introduction and a conclusion. These are intended to test your ability to
describe understanding/knowledge about the topic in a systematic, to-the-point, and coherent
manner.
Assignment Two has Middle Category Questions (MCQs). These questions require you to first
analyse the topic in terms of arguments and explanations and then write the answers in a concise
manner. They are meant to test your ability to clearly understand concepts and processes.
Assignment Three has Short Category Questions (SCQs). These questions are meant to improve
your skill of recall the relevant/precise information about persons, writing, events, and or clear
understanding of concepts and processes.
Before you attempt the assignments, please read the instructions carefully provided in the
Programme Guide of BAPSH. It is important that you write the answers in your own words.
Your answers should be within the approximate range of the word-limit set for a particular
section. Remember, writing answers to assignment questions will improve your writing skills and
prepare you for the term-end examination.
You need to submit all the assignments within the stipulated time for being eligible to appear in
the term-end examination. The completed assignments should be submitted as per the following
schedule.

Session Last Date of Submission Whom to submit


July 2024 Session April 30, 2025 The Coordinator of the
Study Centre allotted to
January 2025 Session October 31, 2025 you

You must obtain a receipt from the Study Centre for the assignments submitted and retain it.
Keep a xerox copy of the assignments with you.
The Study Centre will return the assignments to you after they are evaluated. Please insist on this.
The Study Centre has to send the marks to the Student Evaluation Division at IGNOU, New
Delhi.

Wishing you all the best,


Faculty of Political Science

2
BPSC -105: INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
(TUTOR MARKED ASSIGNMENT)

Course code: BPSC-105


Assignment Code: BPSC-105/ASST/TMA/2024-25
Marks: 100

There are three sections in this assignment. You have to answer all questions in each
Section.

Assignment - I

Answer the following in about 500 words each. Each question carries 20 marks.

1. Briefly describe the comparative methods used in the study of political science.
2. Critically examine the interrelationship between liberal democracy and capitalism.

Assignment - II

Answer the following questions in about 250 words each. Each question carries 10
marks.

1. What Structural Functional analysis? What are its limitations?


2. Describe the functioning of socialist states in Asia.
3. Briefly describe the core features of federalism in Brazil.

Assignment - III

Write a short note on the following in about 100 words each. Each short note carries 6
marks.

1. Fukuyama on global capitalism


2. The concept of overdeveloped state
3. Party system in China
4. Dictatorship of the proletariat
5. New institutionalism.

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