Head of Department: Professor W. MACMAHON BALL, M.A.
ORDINARY DEGREE
(Details for the honours degree are set out at the end of this section. ) Group 2
SUBJECTS OFFERED
Modern Government A, В, C, Public Administration, International Relations A, B, Political Sociology.
For approved majors see p. 31.
For pre-requisites for certain subjects see Regulation 3.5.
Notes: (1) Students taking the ordinary degree, or the honours degree other than in the school of Political Science, may enter for honours in individual Political Science subjects. Details of the additional honours syllabus in each subject will be found below, under the heading "Honours Degree, School of Political Science",
(2) External Studies: In special circumstances external students may be admitted to Modern Government A. No written notes are provided in the subject. External,
students are not admitted to any other Political Science subject.
GB. MODERN GOVERNMENT A
A course of two lectures and one tutorial class per week throughout the year.
SYLLABUS
A brief introduction to the nature of political and administrative activity. The theory of the modern democratic state. The constitutional systems, main political institutions, public opinion, party systems, and contemporary political developments in Britain and Australia.
Students will be required to submit written work during the year.
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(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
Hancock, W. K.—Australia.
( AustralianPocket Library, Jacaranda. ) Miller, J. D.
B. Australian Government and Politics. ( Duckworth,)( b ) Prescribed textbooks:
*Crisp, L. F.—The
Parliamentary Government of the Commonwealth of Aus- tralia. (Longmáns. )
or *Davies, A.
F.—Australian Democracy. ( 2nded., Longman. ) (c) Recommended for reference:
Jennings, W. I.-Cabinet
Government. ( 3rded., C.U.P.)
Davis, S. R. (ed.)
-The Government of the Australian States. (Longmans. )Mckenzie, R.
T.—British Political Parties. ( 2nded., Heinemann. ) Jupp, j —Australian
Party Politics. ( M.U.P. )Crisp, L.
F.—The Australian Federal Labor Party. (Longmann.) Eneel,
S.—Cabinet Government in Australia. ( M.U.P. )Morrison,
H.—Governmentand
Parliament. (2nded., O.U.P.) Sawer,
G.—Australian Government Today. ( M.U.P. )Detailed reading guides will be issued during the year.
EXAMINATION. One 3-hour paper.
67. MODERN GOVERNMENT B
A course of two lectures with one tutorial class per week throughout the year.
SYLLАВUS
A study of modern government in the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. The course on the U.S.A. will cover the theory of the United States constitution, the powers and the duties of Presidency, the relations of President to Congress, the represen- tative functions of Congress, the Congressional Committee system, the powers of congressional investigation, American political parties and pressure groups, the Supreme Court and civil rights. The course on the U.S.S.R. will cover the 1917 Revolution, the development of the Soviet economic system, the evolution of the Soviet state system, the theoretical basis of Soviet politics, the role of elections and public opinion, the Supreme Soviet, Soviet federalism, the economic role of the Soviet state, the Soviet budgetary system, policy formulation, the CPSU, party-state relations. An analysis and assessment of changes
inthe Soviet system since 1953.
Students are required to submit written work during the course.
BOOKS
(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
Beloff,
M. The American Federal Government.(Oxford.) Wilson,
W.—Congressional Government. ( Meridian. )Miller,
J.—Soviet Russia. (Hutchinson'sU.L. )
Armstrong,
J. Ideology, Politics and Government in the Soviet Union.(Prae
-ger.
)
( b ) Prescribed textbooks:
*Irish, M. D., and Prothro, J. W. The
Politics of American Democracy. (Prentice-Hall. )
or *Carr, R. K., Bernstein, M. H.,
andMurphy, W.
F.—American Democracy in Theory and Practice.(Essentials edition, revised, 1965.) (Holt, Rinehart and Winston.)
*Scott, D. J.
R.—Russian Political Institutions.(Allen & Unwin.) (c) Recommended for reference:
Binkley, W. E., and Moos, M. C.—A
Grammar of American Politics.(Knopf.) Gross,
B.—The Legislative Struggle.(McGraw-Hill.)
Lubell,
S.—The Future of American Politics. (Anchor Paperback.) Rossiter, C.
L.—The American Presidency.(Hamish Hamilton.) Key, V. 0.—Polities,
Parties and Pressure Groups.(Crowell.) Hill, C.—Lenin and
the Russian Revolution. (E.U.P. )170
Can, E.
H.-The
Bolshevik Revolution. (Macmillan.) Towster, J.—Political Power in the U.S.S.R. (O.U.P.) Stalin, j V.—Problems of Leninism. (FLPH. ) Fainsod, M.—How Russia is Ruled. (Harvard U.Р. )Hazard, J. N.—The Soviet System of Government. (3rd
ed.,
paperback, Harvard U.P.)Carew Hunt, R. N.—The Theory and Practice of Communism. (Pelican.) Rigby, T. H., and Churchward, L. G.—Decision-making in the U.S.S.R. (A.P.S.A.
Monograph, )
tripp,
a—Patterns of Soviet Politics. (Dorsey.)Brzezinsky, Z. and Huntington, S. P.—Political Power: U.S.A.—U.S.S.R. (Chatto
& Windus.)
Detailed reading guides will be issued throughout the year.
EXAMINATION. One 3-hour paper.
68. MODERN GOVERNMENT C
A course of two lectures and one tutorial class per week throughout the year.
SYLLABUS
A study of modern government in China, India, and Japan. The aspects of government to be studied in each country will include the background, the develop- ment of institutions, the theory and practice of government, administrative machinery, political parties and public opinion. Comparisons of the three countries will be made throughout the year.
Students will be required to submit written work during the year.
BOOKS
(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
Fairbank, J. K.—The United States and China. ( Rev.
ed.,
Harvard U.P., 1959.) Wallbank, T. W.—A Short History of India and Pakistan. (Mentor.)Griffiths, P.—Modern India. (Penn.)
Tiedman, A.-Modern Japan, a brief History.
(b ) Prescribed textbooks:
*Morris-Jones—The Government and Politics of India. (Hutchinson.)
*Quigley, H. S., and Turner, J. E.—The New Japan: Government and Politics.
( Minnesota. )
*Ward, R. E., and Macridis, R. C. (eds.)—Modern Political Systems: Asia.
( Prentice -Hall. )
(c) Recommended for reference:
Mao
Tse-tung—
Selected Works. (Vols. I-IV. ). ( Lawrence & Wishart. )Mao
Tse-tung—
Selected Works ( Vol. IV ). ( Foreign Language Press, Peking.) Fremantle, A. (ed.
)—MaoTse-tung:
An Anthology of his Writings. (Mentor.) Harrison, S. S.—India: The lost Dangerous Decades. (Princeton U.P.) Weiner, M. Party. Politics in India. (Princeton. )Park, Richard L., and Tinker, Irene.—Leadership and Political Institutions in India. (Princeton.)
Borton, H.
J. Japan's
Modern Century. (Ronald.)Ike, N. Japanese Politics: an Introductory Survey. (Knopf.) Detailed reading guides will be issued during the year.
EXAMINATION. One 3-hour paper.
69. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS A . A course of two lectures and one tutorial class per week throughout the year.
SYLLABUS
A.
IntroductoryNations and nation states; nationalism; sovereignty. Different approaches to the study of international relations.
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International Relations before 19I4
Explanatory concepts; Balance of. Power, Imperialism.
C. Problems of International Rе lations between two world wars
Wilsonism and the Peace Treaties; League of Nations; security, arbitration, disarmament; appeasement and collective security following the political and economic breakdown of the 1930's; origins of the Second World War.
D. Origins of the Cold War
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Characteristics of Soviet and American foreign policy
Ideology; national interest; expansion and containment; formulation of American foreign policy.
F. Cопtemрoтаry