Optionals IAS Mains Political Science: Questions 225 - 232 of 398

Implementation of Human Rights and Changing Conduct of Nation States

• Human rights are basic social conditions that every human being is said to deserve just for being human.
• They are said to be universal and are of utmost importance if human beings are to reach their full potential.
• The earliest human rights charter was signed in 1945 at San Francisco…

Concept of the North-South Divide and the Structural Inequalities

• The North and South divide is essentially economic inequalities between the countries North and the South of the equator.
• It has been noticed that the countries of the global North have high GDP, GDP per capita, higher wages and higher HDI (quality of life) .

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Corona Outbreak and India

• With the global pandemic covid-19 strengthening, its grip over the largest democracy, apart from being the test on the efficiency of health and economic infrastructure of the country, it poses a challenge to the basic tenets of democracy and federalism.
• Why the tenets are under test?
  • The nature of COVID-19 emerging as a serio…

Gandhi՚S Critique of Modernisation

• Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was one of the tallest leaders of the Indian National movement.
• He was a man who waged a non-violent struggle against the British by encouraging people to disobey the colonialist government.
• He was deeply religious at heart and utilised teachings from various religious texts such as the Upa…

Interest Groups and Democracy Promotion

• Interest groups are politically inclined associations that are voluntary in nature.
• They assimilate and represent the demands of certain sections of society and then try to get the political class to bring favourable policies.
• The methods employed by these interest groups define its type. Gabriel Almond defines …

Land Reforms and Rural Poverty Eradication

• It is important to understand the land ownership pattern in India during the British period so as to understand the current problems faced by rural poor.
• The British in India, contrary to their French and Portuguese counterparts practiced the Lugard model of governance.
• In this model, the coloniser makes no a…

India and US Relationships

• India and US are two of the greatest functioning democracies on earth.
• India is the largest democracy in the world with over 800 million members in the electorate.
• US is the world՚s oldest democracy established in 1776.
• Both nations have a common history of anti colonial movements and love for sovereignty.
• However, Indo-US rel…

Impact of Globalisation

• Globalisation is a phenomenon of rapid exchange of cultures, goods, services and information around the world.
• While sharing of cultures between countries have happened throughout time, globalisation can be traced back to the post world war era.
• The end of the Second World War saw an unprecedented change in technology especiall…