definition - gs2 Flashcards
Delegated Legislation
Delegated legislation refers to the executive government assuming vast legislative powers through a wide legislation and framing rules which endow it with wide powers.
Pressure Groups
Pressure groups are forms of organizations which exert pressure on the political or administrative system of a country to extract benefits out of it and to advance their own interests.
Domestic Violence
Domestic violence is violence and abuse within the household often in a marital relationship. It can also be non-physical and includes attempts to gain power over a wife/husband.
Inner Line Permit
A document required for purposes of visit and staying in areas declared under the Inner Line Permit owing to its unique demography or security situation.
Cooperative Federalism
Cooperative federalism implies the centre and states share a horizontal relationship, where they “cooperate” in the larger public interest.
Competitive Federalism
It refers to promoting healthy competition between the states to keep them motivated in pursuit of economic development.
Asymmetric Federation
In this federation, the Centre and the States do not have matching powers in all matters; there are some differences in the way some States and other constituent units of the Indian Union relate to the Centre.
Multinational federations
A multinational state is a sovereign state that comprises two or more nations or states.
Doctrine Proportionality
Proportionality means that the administrative action should not be more drastic than it ought to be for obtaining the desired result. In India, the doctrine of proportionality was adopted by the Supreme Court in Om Kumar v. Union of India.
Constitutional Morality
Constitutional morality means adherence to the core principles of constitutional democracy. It means an effective coordination between conflicting interests of different people and the administrative cooperation to resolve the issues without any confrontation amongst the various groups.
Doctrine of Essentiality
It is the judicial doctrine where a practice or process within religion is justified to be essential and thus judicial pronouncement asking for its removal is tantamount to violation of the religion itself.
Judicial Overreach
It is the extreme form of judicial activism which involves frequent and unnecessary judicial interventions in legislation as well as executive functions of the government.
Consequential Seniority
If a reserved category candidate is promoted before a general category candidate because of reservation in promotion, then for subsequent promotion the reserved candidate retains seniority.
Financial Prudence
The careful and economic management of financial resources for effective and productive use.
Political Morality
The use of moral and ethical judgments in making political decisions and general polity.
Political Victimization
Treating political opponents poorly and unfairly and making them feel as if they are in a bad position.
Principle of Natural Justice
They are those rules laid down by the Courts as being the minimum protection of the rights of the individual against the arbitrary procedure.
Tribunals
A judicial or quasi-judicial institution which deals with more specialized matters and is less formal than courts.
Public Service
It is a service provided by the government to people living within its jurisdiction, either directly (through the public sector) or by financing the provision of services.
Public Authority
It is any authority or body or institution of self-government established or constituted by or under the Constitution; or by any other law.
Custodial Violence
It refers to violence in police custody and judicial custody. Besides death, rape and torture are two other forms of custodial violence.
Capital Punishment
It is a legal penalty ordered by the Court against the person who has committed a certain crime that is prohibited by the law. In India, it is only given in the rarest of the rare cases as per the Indian Penal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure.
Uniform Civil Code
It provides for one law for the entire country, applicable to all religious communities in their personal matters such as marriage, divorce, inheritance, etc.
Public Interest Litigation
Public Interest Litigation (PIL) means a legal tool to protect the interest of the general public. It is the use of the law to promote human rights and equality, and to raise matters of widespread public concern.
Judicial Activism
It is an approach to the exercise of judicial review, or a description of a particular judicial decision, in which a judge is generally considered more willing to decide constitutional issues and to invalidate legislative or executive actions.
Criminalization of Politics
It means there is an increase in criminals entering politics, contesting elections, and getting elected to the Parliament and state legislature.
Self Help Groups
Self-help groups are informal groups of people who come together to address their common problems, usually financial.
Governance
Governance is commonly defined as the exercise of power or authority by political leaders for the well-being of their country’s citizens or subjects.
Good Governance
Good Governance is the process of providing services to the citizen by inducting their participation, to meet their aspiration, to resolve their conflict, and hold the government accountable.
