• Written by Eddy Asirvatham, it is thoroughly revised and enlarged edition.

• This book incorporates all these new themes, such as politics as a social process; history. political theory and ideology; Liberal and Marxist views of politics; com- parative dimensions of the State; the State in capitalist, socialist and develop- ing societies; Marxist theory of the origin and function of the State; the con- cept of justice, liberty and equality; contemporary theories of Democracy; Marxist theories of man, freedom, alienation, State and revolution; theories of political obligation; political ideologies in the third world; behaviouralism and post-behaviouralism.

Great Book for B.A , IAS , PCS and other Exams.