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Indian Government and Politics
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Indian Government and Politics

by Hoveyda Abbas, Ranjay Kumar, Mohammed Aftab Alam
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
16h 37m
English
Pearson India
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Chapter 1

1 Though there is no agreed definition of ‘public office’, we can describe it as that office which is funded by the public treasury and/or formulates and implements public policy. Public policies are formulated by the legislature/government in public interest or for the public good.

2 Political process, as per the liberal approach, means the process of reconciling various interests and effecting generally acceptable policies. As per the Marxian approach, though, politics is nothing but legitimizing class dominance.

3 Aristotle analysed and compared the constitutions of at least 158 city-states with populations between 2,500 and 10,000.

4 Greeks considered self-sufficiency not only in the sense of physical needs and security of its ...

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