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NTA NET POLITICAL SCIENCE ALL BOOKS AND AUTHERS

Books and Authors Questions in NTA UGC NET Political Science.

Questions on Books and Authors are an important part of the NTA UGC NET Political Science examination. These questions test a candidate’s conceptual clarity and familiarity with standard political science literature. Most questions are factual and aim to match a book with its author or identify the theme of a well-known work.

To score well, aspirants should prepare a consolidated list of classic and contemporary books across political theory, comparative politics, international relations, and Indian politics, focusing on repeated questions from previous NET exams.

BOOK NAME	AUTHER NAME	PUBLISHED YEAR
01. An Introduction to Politics	Harold Laski	1931
02. Human Nature in Politics	Graham Wallas	1908
03. The Process of Government	Arthur F. Bentley	1908
04. Politics and Social Science	W. J. M. Mackenzie	1967
05. The Art of War	Niccolò Machiavelli	1521
06. American Commonwealth	James Bryce	1888
07. Civil Liberty and Self-Government	Francis Lieber	1853
08. Political Man	Seymour Martin Lipset	1960
09. Public Opinion	Walter Lippmann	1922
10. Introduction to Political Science	John Robert Seeley	1896
11. Modern Politics and Government	Alan Ball	1971
12. The Principles of Politics	George E. G. Catlin	1930
13. The Study of Political Science Today	W. J. M. Mackenzie	1971
14. Political Science and Government	James Wilford Garner	1928
15. Modern Political Analysis	Robert A. Dahl	1963
16. Theory of State / On Concord	Johannes Althusius	1603
17. Principles of Political Science	R. N. Gilchrist	1921
18. Elements of Politics	Henry Sidgwick	1891
19. Nature of Politics	J. D. B. Miller	1962
20. The Government of Modern States	Charles Frederick Strong	1919

21. Elements of Political Science	Stephen Leacock	1906
22. Introduction to Political Science	James Wilford Garner	1910
23. Who Gets What  When  How	Harold D. Lasswell	1936
24. An Introduction to Political Science	Austin Ranney	1975
25. Theories of the Political System	William T. Bluhm	1965
26. Power and Society	Harold D. Lasswell & Abraham Kaplan	1950
27. The Modern State	R. M. MacIver	1926
28. On Justice / On the Soul	Aristotle	~350 BCE
29. The Nerves of Government	Karl W. Deutsch	1963
30. An Economic Theory of Democracy	Anthony Downs	1957
31. The Calculus of Consent	James M. Buchanan & Gordon Tullock	1962
32. A Short History of Politics	E. H. J. N. Dalton	1936
33. A Grammar of Politics	Harold Laski	1925
34. Republic	Plato	~375 BCE
35. Law of the Constitution	A. V. Dicey	1885
36. Reform of Parliament	Bernard Crick	1964
37. Recent Political Thought	Francis W. Coker	1934
38. History of Political Theory	George H. Sabine	1937
39. New Aspects of Politics	Charles E. Merriam	1925
40. The American Science of Politics	Bernard Crick	1959

Western and Modern Political Thought: Thinkers and Their Works .

Western and modern political thought forms a core area of the NTA UGC NET Political Science syllabus. It examines the ideas of major thinkers who shaped political concepts such as the state, liberty, equality, democracy, and justice. Classical Western thinkers like Plato (The Republic) and Aristotle (Politics) laid the foundations of political philosophy by analyzing ideal states and constitutional forms. In the modern period, Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince introduced a realistic approach to power and statecraft. Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan emphasized absolute sovereignty to avoid anarchy, while John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government advocated natural rights and limited government. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, through The Social Contract, stressed popular sovereignty and the general will. Nineteenth-century thought is dominated by Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, which offered a critique of capitalism. Later thinkers like John Stuart Mill (On Liberty) and John Rawls (A Theory of Justice) enriched liberal and democratic

41. The Art of Thought	Graham Wallas	1926
42. Property and Society	Graham Wallas	1918
43. Our Social Heritage	Graham Wallas	1921
44. Political Behavior	Herbert H. Hyman	1959
45. Behaviorism in Political Science	Heinz Eulau	1963
46. Behavioral Persuasion in Politics	Heinz Eulau	1963
47. The Science and Method of Politics	George E. G. Catlin	1927
48. Psychopathology and Politics	Harold D. Lasswell	1930
49. Quantitative Methods in Politics	Stuart A. Rice	1928
50. Physics and Politics	Walter Bagehot	1872
51. The Limits of Behaviorism	James Charlesworth	1962
52. Systematic Politics	George E. G. Catlin	1962
53. Liberalism  Ancient and Modern	Leo Strauss
54. The Political System	David Easton	1953
55. A Framework for Political Analysis	David Easton	1965
56. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	Mary Wollstonecraft	1792
57. The Book of the City of Ladies	Christine de Pizan	1405
58. The Feminine Mystique	Betty Friedan	1963
59. Sexual Politics	Kate Millett	1970
60. The Second Sex	Simone de Beauvoir	1949
61. The Discourses	Niccolò Machiavelli	1531
62. Man and Society	John Plamenatz	1963
63. The Ruling Class	Gaetano Mosca	1896
64. Two Treatises of Government	John Locke	1689
65. The Social Contract	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	1762
66. Political Economy	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	1755
67. Emile	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	1762
68. Leviathan Thomas	Hobbes	1651
69. The Nature of the State	Willoughby Walling	1896
70. De Cive Thomas	Hobbes	1642

Feminist and Behavioural Political Thought and Their Works

Feminist political thought critiques traditional political theory for ignoring women’s experiences and gender-based power relations. It highlights issues of patriarchy, equality, representation, and justice. Feminist thinkers argue that the personal is political and that political structures sustain gender inequality. Important works include Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which demands equal rights and education for women; Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, which analyses women’s oppression as socially constructed; and Carole Pateman’s The Sexual Contract, which critiques liberal democracy for excluding women. Feminism has expanded political analysis to include family, care, and identity.

Behavioural political thought emerged in the 20th century as a scientific approach to politics, focusing on observable political behaviour rather than normative ideas. It emphasizes empirical research, psychology, and data analysis. Key works include Graham Wallas’ Human Nature in Politics and Arthur F. Bentley’s The Process of Government. Behaviouralism aimed to make political science more objective and systematic.

71. De Corpore	Thomas Hobbes	1655
72. De Homine	Thomas Hobbes	1658
73. The Common Laws	Thomas Hobbes	1651
74. Historia Ecclesiastica	Thomas Hobbes	1688
75. Behemoth	Thomas Hobbes	1681
76. Some Thoughts Concerning Education	John Locke	1693
77. Letters Concerning Toleration	John Locke	1689
78. Elements of Natural Philosophy	John Locke	1698
79. Discourse on Inequality	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	1755
80. Letter from the Mountain	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	1764
81. Confessions	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	1782
82. On Education	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	1762
83. Discourse on the Arts and Sciences	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	1750
84. The Marxist Theory of the State	Ernest Mandel	1971
85. The State in Capitalist Society	Ralph Miliband	1969
86. Marxism and Politics	Ralph Miliband	1977
87. Political Power and Social Classes	Nicos Poulantzas	1968
88. The Open Society and Its Enemies	Karl Popper	1945
89. The Power Elite	C. Wright Mills	1956
90. Dialectical Materialism	Maurice Cornforth	1953
91. Dialectical and Historical Materialism Joseph Stalin 1938	Joseph Stalin	1938
92. Problems of Leninism	Joseph Stalin	1924
93. Foundations of Leninism	Joseph Stalin	1924
94. What the “Friends of the People” Are	Vladimir Lenin	1894
95. Iskra	Vladimir Lenin (Edited)	1900
96. Pravda	Joseph Stalin (Edited)	1912
97. The Philosophy of Poverty	Pierre-Joseph Proudhon	1847
98. Critique of Pure Reason	Immanuel Kant	1781
99. Principles of Political Obligation	T. H. Green	1895
100. The Metaphysical Theory of the State	L. T. Hobhouse	1918