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LAWS RELATED TO ELECTIONS IN INDIA  The Representation of the People Act (RPA), 1950  • This act provides for the allocation of seats in the House of the People,  allocation of seats to the States in the House of the People and the number of seats, total number of seats in Legislative Assemblies and assembly constituencies.  • The act also has provisions for the Election Commission appointed by the President under article 324.  The Representation of People Act, 1951  • This act provides for the provisions for the process of actual conduct of elections in India.  • The act has provisions for different electoral matters like registration of political parties, Notification of general elections, conduct of elections, qualification and disqualification norms for the members of the Parliament and State Legislature.  Constitutional Articles:  • Articles 80 and 170 of the Constitution provides the provisions for the maximum number of seats in the Par...

CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS RELATED TO LANGUAGES  • Article 29: Protects the interests of minorities including Linguistic minorities.  • Eighth Schedule: Enlists 22 languages as scheduled languages.  • Art 343: Official language of the Union: Hindi and English.  • Art 344: Commission and Committee of Parliament on official language  • Art 345: Official language or languages of a State  • Art 346: Official language for communication between one State and another or between a State and the Union  • Art 347: Special provision relating to language spoken by a section of the population of a State. • Art 348: Language to be used in the Supreme Court and in the High Courts and for Acts, Bills, etc. (at present English)  • Art 349: Special procedure for enactment of certain laws relating to language  • Art 350: Language to be used in representations for redress of grievances  • Art 350A: Facilities for instruction in mother-tongue at the primary s...

  KENICHI OHANE   - Borderless world Marshal MacLuan  - Global Village. (Also said, There are no passenger on ship called mother earth, we are all crew) Anthoy Giddens  - Compression in time and space. Global Governance : Creation of  regional organisations  like EU, ASEAN,  Global Financial architecture  of WB, IMF WTO International Justice   -  ICC, PCA, ICJ and most importantly UN How to legitimise Pol power at the international level  Statism  - Dialogue between states  Cosmopolitism  -  world govt on liberal principles  -  David Held  Others like  Sorenson   -   Liberal Order  and the  global governance   is in crisis  Jospeh Stiglitz  - Democratic Deficit  Stanley Hoffman  - UN paralysed by the P2-P3 polarisation  Hardip Puri  -  Security Council and the Politics of Chaos Bhikhu Parekh  - ...

  Comparison of PG/PP/SM is one of the prominent areas of investigation in modern comparative politics   Refer the same topic under 1B (  Party and Pressure Groups ) Political Parties  Systematic study of political parties -  Statistology( Behavioralists) Input fn -  Interest Aggregation (As per struct-fun approach of  Almond and Powell ) Party System - no of parties of  systemic relevance  and not the number of political parties  ( Sartori ) Two approaches - Traditionalist (normative) and behaviourist(pol parties are  Powerhouse ) Edmund Burke  ( Traditionalist )  Pol parties as a group of people with a  shared ideology  for the  pursuit of common interest  Otto Von Kirchheimer   (Kidhar bhi side mar jayenge)   Catch all parties  Ideology don’t matter Office oriented Lenin  ToCommunist Party (in his template-  what is to be done ) Secret Society,cells at local level. Pyramidal ...